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Like many countries, Mali doesn’t have enough health workers. Eighty-three of the world’s countries fall short of the World Health Organization’s minimum threshold of 23 health workers per 10,000 population.

“There is a need to ask the government to make much more of an effort to remedy the shortage of health workers,” said Mali’s current director of human resources for health, Dr. Idrissa Cissé. “But there is also the need to figure out if there isn’t a better manner to distribute the health workforce.” Read more »

Health workers save lives, but the world doesn’t have enough health workers to meet the global demand. Many countries are striving to strengthen their health workforce and improve health outcomes, but health leaders may not be aware of the ways in which gender discrimination is impeding their efforts.

Gender discrimination hinders initiatives to develop and efficiently deploy the health workforce, which can result in maldistribution, absenteeism, and a limited pool of motivated health workers. This in turn negatively impacts the population’s access to high-quality health care. Read more »

USAID/Dominican Republic has awarded IntraHealth International a two-year associate award to build on CapacityPlus’s achievements in the Dominican Republic.

Critical to the country’s efforts to improve access to high-quality HIV services is a focus on the health workforce and the systems used to manage and support these valuable human resources. The new project, Improving HIV Service Outcomes through Strengthening Human Resources Management, will refine key systems at the Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Public Administration, hospitals, and other institutions. HR management is the integrated use of systems, policies, and practices that provide the range of functions needed to plan, produce, deploy, manage, and sustain the health workforce. Read more »