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Why Nigeria’s Response to Ebola Succeeded
A man arrived by plane in Lagos on July 20. He fell ill at the airport and was taken to a hospital. Shortly afterward he was diagnosed with Ebola, the first case in Nigeria.Lagos is an enormous city of...
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Emergency Care Comes into Focus in Ghana
Dr. Eno Biney is an emergency medicine specialist at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, the second-largest city in Ghana. She’s part of a new cohort of health workers that are changing the...
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HR Management Policy Implementation at Presbyterian Church of East Africa...
In Kenya, faith-based organizations make a major contribution to health service delivery. The Christian Health Association of Kenya (CHAK) and the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops provide an...
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iHRIS Champions in Ghana Share Success with Using Health Workforce Data
Like many of his fellow Ghanaians, Obeng Asomaning wanted to use his skills to help his country. As a new graduate with a degree in health service planning and management, he landed a job at the...
View Article“I’m a Health Worker”: Dr. Arturo Carrillo
Dr. Arturo Carrillo wants to end discrimination and stigmatization of people living with HIV in his home country of El Salvador. “Very often people disrespect the basic human rights of this...
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Supporting Lifelong Learning among Nigerian Community Health Workers through...
Lifelong learning is the ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. It is not confined to the classroom but takes place throughout life and...
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2014’s Top Global Health Stories—and What They Have to Do with Health Workers
As 2014 comes to an end, the international development community stands on the cusp of major new progress, particularly in global health and development—but the war and disease that marked this year...
View ArticleInvest in Health Workers to End AIDS
The recent focus on Ebola in West Africa has reminded us of the need for strong and resilient health systems. Behind every quality health system is an army of available and accessible health workers....
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The Room Was Full to Support and Protect Vulnerable Children in Nigeria
Nigeria SSW report slideshowJan 20, 2015 by Carol Bales Click to view slideshow. In December, the government of Nigeria launched a key report aimed at protecting orphans and vulnerable children in its...
View ArticleWhere Are the Health Workers?
Professor Kayode Odusote (consultant for IntraHealth International, right) discusses health worker distribution with Mbemba Traore (director of the human resources unit at the Guinea Ministry of Health...
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What’s So Rosy about Garden City?
The walls. They’re the first thing you notice when you arrive at Garden City University College, a small school in Kumasi, Ghana. They’re painted a pale mauve. During the magic hour, when the sun’s low...
View ArticleBotswana Is Building a Strong Health System by Focusing on Health Workers
“I have a passion to help sick people,” says Oteng Gaopatwe, a nurse at Nyangabgwe Referral Hospital in Francistown, Botswana. “One thing I like most about my job is to see my clients satisfied, having...
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New ILO Report: The World Needs More Rural Health Workers, A Lot More
On April 27, a new report released by the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) made a distressing finding: without adequate numbers of health workers, especially in rural areas, more...
View ArticleSix Reasons Ministries of Finance Should Invest in Health Workers
Last week’s high-level talks about human resources for health in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, resulted in the Addis Ababa Call to Action on financing the health workforce, signed by the nine ministries of...
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Nursing Education Partnership Initiative Tackles the Global Nursing Shortage
Around the world nurses are often the front line of the formal medical system, providing care to underserved areas and filling in where and when doctors are in short supply. Yet it has been estimated...
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