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By
Julia Berman on
August 27, 2010
The World Health Organization has published new guidelines meant to address the health worker shortage that plague rural and impoverished regions. In a July 2010 policy recommendation paper, the WHO offers recommendations to aid worker retention and attract new health workers to overlooked areas. Strategies include altering the ways in which students are selected and [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged education, financial incentives, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, lancet, Millennium Development Goals, personal, professional, recommendations, regulatory, the global health act, the Lancet, WHO, world health organization
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By
Julia Berman on
August 12, 2010
Only 37% of Ugandan physicians are satisfied with their jobs and nearly half are at risk of either exiting the health sector or leaving Uganda entirely, according to a study published this year by the International Journal of Health Planning and Management. The study, “Satisfaction, Motivation, and Intent to Stay Among Ugandan Physicians,” is co-authored by [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health
| Tagged agha, Amy Hagopian, brain drain, Emily Bancroft, Global HEALTH Act, Global Health Strategy, health worker shortage, IMF, International Journal of Health Planning and Management, Leland Fellow, malawi, the global health act, Uganda, World Bank
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
May 20, 2010
On May 10th, The New York Times published a heartrending story on the faltering fight against AIDS in Uganda — a story that has sparked a firestorm of controversy and criticism of the Obama Administration’s global AIDS strategy.
The Times identified a deep funding gap for combating AIDS in Uganda, including a freeze on new funds from [...]
Posted in AIDS, General Human Rights, Health
| Tagged africa, AIDS, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, hillary clinton, hiv, new york times, Pat Doust, PEPFAR, peter mugyenyi, Uganda
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
May 12, 2010
Today, as we celebrate International Nurses Day, the health workforce crisis remains one of the greatest hurdles to realizing the right to health for all in developing countries.
The Global HEALTH Act can help. The GHA, introduced in Congress by Representative Barbara Lee on March 24, would provide $2 billion over five years to increase the [...]
Posted in Health, Take Action
| Tagged congress, Conyers, Ellison, Garamendi, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, Global Health Strategy, Grijalva, international nurses day, Jackson, Lee, Norton, Stark, Watson, Woolsey
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
May 3, 2010
As of today, the global health community has secured seven co-sponsors for the Global HEALTH Act: Reps. John Conyers (MI), Lynn Woolsey (CA), Raul Grijalva (AZ), Keith Ellison (MN), John Garamendi (CA), Fortney Pete Stark (CA) and Diane Watson (CA).
PHR wants to double this number — and double it again. To gain more support for the [...]
Posted in Events, Health, Take Action
| Tagged GHA, Global HEALTH Act, international nurses day, national call in day, toolkit
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By
Helen Potts on
April 27, 2010
The article Maternal mortality for 181 countries, 1980-2008: a systematic analysis of progress towards Millennium Development Goal 5, released in The Lancet last week, records a global reduction in maternal mortality rates. A reduction is certainly welcomed. At the same time, whatever the exact reduction – be it indicated by these figures or [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health, Women
| Tagged AIDS, arvs, Deadly Delays, GHAC, Global HEALTH Act, global health initiative, hiv, lancet, maternal health, obama, right to health
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
April 20, 2010
You are not the only one encouraging your Congressperson to co-sponsor the Global HEALTH Act. Representative Barbara Lee sent a letter to all her Congressional colleagues last week, urging them to support the bill. Check out her letter below. It outlines the four ways that the Global HEALTH Act will assist with the development and implementation [...]
Posted in Health, Take Action
| Tagged Barbara Lee, congress, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, global health initiative, Health Systems, health workforce, HR 4933, legislation, obama, PEPFAR, Rep. Barbara Lee, the global health act
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By
Sonia Lee on
April 15, 2010
The health workforce crisis in Uganda is immense. Uganda is reportedly losing at least 1,400 skilled professionals each year, and there are only 29,000 medical personnel in a country of 31 million people. Consequently, the health system is suffering, and most often the blame falls on health workers, as they are on the frontline and [...]
Posted in AIDS, Health
| Tagged Antiretrovirals for Kaposi's Sarcoma, ARKS, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, health workforce crisis, human resources, human resources for health strategic plan, IDI, Infectious Disease Institute, Mitterand Kiirya, profile, Uganda, Uganda Cares
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
April 7, 2010
The statistics are shocking.
Malawi has only 260 doctors to care for a population of 13 million. The city of Washington, DC — home to 600,000 people — has about twice as many physicians as the entire country of Ethiopia, home to 80 million.
Today, as we celebrate World Health Day, the health workforce crisis remains one [...]
Posted in Health, Take Action
| Tagged Global HEALTH Act, health workforce crisis, Rep. Barbara Lee, Take Action, World Health Day
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By
Sarah Kalloch on
March 30, 2010
This month, PHR is examining the health workers shortage in Africa ahead of the introduction of the Global HEALTH Act, which would provide $2 billion over five years to strengthen the health workforce in developing countries.
Today, we want to highlight an organization that is working right now to fill health worker vacancies in rural areas [...]
Posted in Health
| Tagged africa, Africa Health Placements, AHP, GHA, Global HEALTH Act, Lesotho, south africa, Swaziland
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