World 'short of health workers'
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Millions more health workers are needed if global health is going to be improved over the next decade, a study says.
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Africa needs to nearly triple the number of its health workers if it is to reverse plummeting life expectancies and combat pandemics of disease, a research group of more than 100 scholars and experts said in a report released today.
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The biggest challenge in the global fight against AIDS is no longer money for drug research and treatment but the lack of local health services in nations worst-hit by the disease, the World Bank said on Monday.
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WASHINGTON: The World Health Organisation, Doctors Without Borders and other agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide safe drinking water and sanitation and reduce threats of infectious-disease outbreaks in the
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Health centres staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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A shortage of doctors and nurses means people are dying unnecessarily from HIV/Aids in Southern Africa.
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A critical global shortage of health workers is getting worse, prompting a &quot;fatal migration&quot; of desperately needed doctors and nurses from poor countries
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Conducted jointly by the Iraqi government and the World Health Organization, its finding is lower than the 600,000 arrived at by John Hopkins University.
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Nearly half of District residents, many with chronic diseases, live in areas with a critical shortage of doctors to provide basic care.
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The World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders and other international agencies have begun rushing medical teams, generators and other equipment to provide
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Health centers staffed by trained   midwives are the key to reducing maternal deaths in poor   countries where more than half a million women die each year   giving birth.
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Some 2.6 billion people in the   world, mainly in Africa and Asia, lack access to basic   sanitation, increasing the risk of diarrhea and other diseases   fatal to children, said a U.N. report released on Thursday.
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Access to anti-Aids drugs is spreading in many poor countries, but not as fast as had been hoped, the WHO says.
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Up to five million people in the tsunami-struck Indian Ocean region lack access to the basic supplies they need to stay alive, such as clean water, shelter, food, sanitation and health care, the United Nations health agency said Thursday.
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Â· Report tells of lack of access to antenatal care Â· Clinic says findings 'rebut myth of health tourist'
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TONY EASTLEY: On World AIDS Day one international charity says people in the poorest countries are being left to die from HIV because governments and corporations simply aren&#39;t providing basic treatment options readily available in western countries.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CP) - Aid officials said Monday that among the victims of the tsunami are the people most needed now: health-care workers.