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Haiti Prioritizes Human Resources for Health

June 2010 by Sara Pacqué-Margolis
TAGS: Advocacy, Community Health Workers, Global Health Council, Haiti, Health Systems Strengthening, Human Resources for Health, Nurses

On Wednesday, I attended the Global Health Council Conference plenary session entitled "After the Earthquake: Towards Building a New Haitian Health System”, in which the Haitian Minister of Health, the Honorable Dr. Alex Larsen, discussed Haiti’s number one health priority—building the country’s human resources for health.

Dr. Larsen and partners of the Haitian Ministry of Health conveyed the futility of developing infrastructure and obtaining commodities without simultaneously bolstering the health care workforce. He mentioned three cadres of health workers that are currently in particularly high demand: community health workers, midwives, and nurse anesthesiologists. Read more »

From Human Resources for Health to Visiting Uganda’s Natural Resources

June 2010 by Erik Reavely
TAGS: Evaluation, Kenya, Partnerships, Stakeholder leadership groups, Uganda

Erik Reavely and George Mgomella

As part of the CapacityPlus work with stakeholder leadership groups, I traveled to Kenya and Uganda for two weeks in April.

Together, George Mgomella, from associate partner the African Population and Health Research Center, and I interviewed 22 members of the Health Workforce Observatory in Kenya and the Health Workforce Advisory Board in Uganda about their experience in these stakeholder leadership groups. Read more »

Global Health Workforce News of Interest

June 2010 by Sarah L. Dwyer
TAGS: Community Health Workers, Maternal Health, mHealth, Skilled Birth Attendants

Health worker in UgandaHere are five articles I found particularly interesting this week:

Effect of Peer Health Workers on AIDS Care in Rakai, Uganda
This article in the PloS ONE journal reports on the findings of “a cluster randomized trial to assess the effect of community-based peer health workers (PHW) on AIDS care of adults in Rakai, Uganda.” The authors conclude that “PHWs may be an effective intervention to sustain long-term ART in low-resource settings.”

Over 2,000 Health Workers Get Free Phones
The New Times (Rwanda) reports that community health workers in Karongi District “will get free mobile phones as part of government’s efforts to boost the health sector through the use of science and technology.” The phones “are part of an ongoing countrywide campaign to ensure efficient and timely submission of monthly medical reports to the Ministry of Health.”

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