About CCHIPs:  

WWHPS launched the Comprehensive Community Health Initiatives & ProgramS (CCHIPs) initiative in Rwanda to implement, test, refine and document its primary healthcare strategy.  CCHIPs is a three-year, phased strategy developed to provide sustainable, integrated and community-supported primary healthcare systems and services to help Rwanda in the achievement of its Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP).

CCHIPs represents a replicable set of programs and initiatives developed to improve both the operational and medical systems of rural centres.  The goal of CCHIPs is to provide an operating manual for how to make rural health centres more effective.

Such a manual is developed by our project staff of five, working out of a project house in Musanze on the Northwest Border of the country.  Our staff currently operates a health centre in Shingiro, on the upslopes of the Bisoke volcano.  The Shingiro Health Centre serves as a test site for the CCHIPs program, and with success at Shingiro, WWHPS hopes to expand CCHIPs to additional rural centres.