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Examining the Critical Link between Health Workers and Millennium Development Goal 6

Jun 20, 2011

The global health workforce shortage is a critical obstacle to reaching the goal of universal access to HIV/AIDS services. On June 9, CapacityPlus’s Wanda Jaskiewicz participated in the side event “Can MDG 6 be achieved with the health workforce we have?” at the United Nations General Assembly’s High Level Meeting on AIDS in New York. Read more »

Human Resources for Health Planning Retreat Held in Ghana to Support National Health Sector Goals

Jun 10, 2011

In May, CapacityPlus staff Paul Marsden and Kathy Alison facilitated a four-day drafting team retreat in Ghana to assist the Ghanaian government to develop its new five-year human resources (HR) policy and strategy for the health sector. Read more »

Preparing Health Workers to Meet Women’s Reproductive Health Needs in Mali

Jun 10, 2011

It takes two days to drive from Mali’s capital, Bamako, to the Gao Region in the north. Encompassing 66,000 square miles, Gao is larger than Greece, Tunisia, or the state of Florida. The region’s population is more than half a million, including 269 nomadic groups. Read more »

New Project to Strengthen HIV/AIDS Care in Central America

Jun 8, 2011

USAID/Guatemala has awarded IntraHealth International a $6.8 million, five-year cooperative agreement under the CapacityPlus project: Strengthening the Quality of Care and Improving the Quality of Life for People Living with HIV and Other Vulnerable Populations. Read more »

HRH Global Resource Center Launches First eLearning Course: Spotlight on iHRIS Administrator: Level 1

Jun 2, 2011

To meet countries’ demands to help build their information technology capacity, CapacityPlus’s HRH Global Resource Center (GRC) launched an eLearning course that provides instructions on the basic skill set needed to administer and customize CapacityPlus’s human resources information systems (HRIS) software, iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify. Read more »

CapacityPlus Announces New Versions of Health Worker Information Systems Software

May 31, 2011

CapacityPlus announces the release of iHRIS Manage and iHRIS Qualify 4.0.15. Part of the iHRIS Suite of software, iHRIS Manage maintains health worker deployment, performance, and attrition information while iHRIS Qualify tracks training, certification, and licensure. Read more »

HRH Global Resource Center May Update

May 26, 2011

This monthly update from the HRH Global Resource Center provides information on the latest resources, improvements, and news from this digital library devoted to human resources for health (HRH). Read more »

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