Africa Needs a Million More Health Care Workers, Report 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.
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Millions of mothers, newborn babies and children die each year in Africa from preventable diseases despite promises of better healthcare by governments and donor countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.
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Efforts to combat diseases such as malaria, Aids, tuberculosis and polio in the developing world are being thwarted by a critical shortage of four million health care workers, a new report has found.
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Nurse Carolyne Mujibi went to work in Kenya&#039;s largest hospital after her father died there &amp;#151; from nursing neglect, she believes. Too much work, too little pay and an assault by a frustrated patient chipped away at her desire to try to make a difference in Kenya.
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African leaders will lobby the Global Fund for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria for more money Wednesday to solve a cash crunch facing its work, seen as vital for the continent's health, officials said.
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The United Nations envoy on AIDS urged Prime Minister Tony Blair to persuade the world's richest countries to provide more funds to step up treatment of the disease in Africa.
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The organization advised health workers in countries hard hit by AIDS to urge every patient to be tested for H.I.V. rather than to simply offer tests in limited circumstances.
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Emergency aid to Africa has more than  tripled in recent years, but more than 120 million people still  live "on the edge of emergency" because of a lack of long-term  solutions, CARE international said on Tuesday.
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As a rising number of HIV/AIDS patients turn to already over-stretched public sector facilities, the ongoing humanitarian crisis is undermining the quality of care in Southern Africa&#39;s health system.
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Non-profit groups developing new drugs and vaccines for neglected tropical diseases urgently need more than &#36;1 billion in additional funding, according to a report on Friday.
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Many nurses in Canada are reaching retirement age and it is a sign of a chronic shortage of front-line health-care workers, according to a report published here Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush named eight more countries on Thursday to get U.S. assistance for malaria prevention and treatment in Africa, where the disease kills a million people a year, and asked Europeans to do more to help.
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Many health specialists say that paraprofessionals are the solution to the brain drain of doctors from African countries like Ethiopia to Western nations.
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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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LONDON, Sep 1 (IPS) - The state of reproductive health is getting worse   in several African countries, a new 'report card'  prepared for a London  meet reveals.
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Authors of a public-health article in this week&#39;s issue of THE LANCET (p 1984) are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS
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Ten times more people in Africa are  getting life-saving AIDS drugs than just three years ago, but  still most get no treatment and the pandemic continues to  spread, the World Health Organization reported on Wednesday.