After a Childhood Spent Struggling with Diabetes, a Rwandan Doctor Teaches Children to Thrive with the Diagnosis

After a Childhood Spent Struggling with Diabetes, a Rwandan Doctor Teaches Children to Thrive with the Diagnosis

When kids with type 1 diabetes come into the clinic in Kigali, Rwanda, where Dr. Aime Manzi works, they often feel hopeless, assuming their lives are over. But Dr. Manzi – who spent years struggling with diabetes as a child before learning to manage the disease, treat others, and advocate for greater awareness and treatment – knows their lives are only beginning. “Someone who has come…with no hope, and seeing them leave with hope” makes his work…