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Health Care Workers: The Campaign to Stengthen Health System Capacity
Urgent
Call for U.S. Initiative on Health Workforce in AIDS-Impacted Countries
The critical shortage of
health care workers and weak health systems is the key bottleneck to scaling
up access to AIDS treatment. Sustained commitment and creative action
are necessary to develop and support the health workforce needed to secure
the right to health and achieve universal access to AIDS treatment...
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Strategic US Initiatives
for Health Workforce Self Sufficiency in Developing Nation
Policymakers striving to
meet a number of important health targets have witnessed logjams
due to shortages of healthcare workers and weak health systems. In order
to meet important goals for disease treatment and prevention, actors at
every level are finding it necessary to train and retain an adequate density
and mix of healthcare workers and the support systems they need...
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The
Budget Ceiling:
Why Countries Can’t Adequately Invest in Health Care and Education
The IMF has set targets
for reducing inflation and paying down the fiscal deficit of the countries
in which it works. In order to reach these targets, countries have to
put limits on their budgets...Because these targets are so much lower
than many economists outside of the IMF believe they need to be, the budget
ceilings are also much lower than they need to be.
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Factsheet:
Health Worker Crisis in Africa
Health workers are at the
core of health systems everywhere. Where there are health worker
shortcomings, health systems will suffer, resulting in preventable death
and disease. Where health workforces are in crisis, health systems
will be in crisis. Such is the case in many countries in sub-Saharan
Africa...
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September 2, 2005
(Manhattan) Health GAP and Physicians for Human Rights press UN members
not to concede to US proposals to gut the World Summit Document. Call
for stregthening language and commitments towards health care systems
support and health worker scale-up needed to meet the Millennium Development
Goals.
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release |
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July 8, 2005 Health GAP and Physicians for Human Rights release financial
targets and interventions needed to scale-up health care workforces in
Africa to meet MDGs and the target of universal HIV/AIDS treatment by
2010. The groups are calling for a global investment of US $2 billion
in 2006, rising to $7.7 billion in 2010 by all donors, and have calculated
the U.S. share as being one-third of the sum needed, or $650 million for
2006, rising to $2.6 billion in 2010. US spending could focus on countries
funded under the PresidentÕs Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. The
figures were calculated by a group that included Lincoln C. Chen, MD,
MPH, the Director of the Harvard University Global Equity Initiative and
co-chair for coordination of the Joint Learning Initiative (JLI).
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release |
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July, 2005 Ahead of the G8 Summit, Health GAP and Physicians for Human
Rights release release international letter calling for G8 commitments
towards supporting builing up of healthcare workforce in Africa.
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letter to G8 (PDF)
June 30, 2005 Ahead
of the G8 Summit United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for
efforts to build affordable and efficient health systems in the developing
world, particularly in Africa, which will require 1 million new health
workers to meet internationally agreed meet the Millennium Development
Goals for the 21st century.
Health GAP press statement
Resources and Materials
OVERVIEWS
- Physicians for Human Rights
(PHR) Submission to the UK Commission for Africa, January 2005.
Download doc - "Human Resources for Health:
Overcoming the Crisis," Human resources and health outcomes Joint
Learning Initiative (JLI) Human Resources for Health and Development,
2003.
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IMF POLICIES
- "Square Pegs, Round Holes,
and Why You Can't Fight HIV/AIDS with Monetarism: How the International
Monetary Fund is Blocking Progress in the FIght Against HIV/AIDS,"
by Rick Rowden, ActionAid USA, March 2005.
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BRAIN DRAIN
- "An Action Plan to Prevent
Brain Drain," Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), July 2004.
Download EXECUTIVE SUMMMARY | Download complete report - 57th World Health Assembly
resolution: "International migration of health personnel: a challenge
for health systems in developing countries," May 2004.
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REGION SPECIFIC
- The Health Sector Human
Resource Crisis in Africa: An Issues Paper, USAID, February 2003.
Download report - TREAT Asia Special Report:
Expanded Availability of HIV/AIDS Drugs in Asia Creates Urgent Need
for Trained Doctors, July 2004
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