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  • Health care: an African solution Exit Disclaimer
    The Lancet, March 26, 2011
    In 2006, WHO's World Health Report detailed the perilous state of health-care provision in sub-Saharan Africa. The statistics are familiar to anyone with an interest in global health.

  • US Funding to train 140,000 African healthcare workers Exit Disclaimer
    Mail & Guardian (South Africa), March 9, 2011
    A new programme, funded largely by the United States President's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), will provide $130-million in grants to African institutions, with the aim of strengthening medical education and research training.

  • Developing Health Workforce Capacity in Africa Exit Disclaimer
    Science, 3 December 2010, Vol. 330
    As we mark World AIDS Day, it is important to assess the relationship between the challenges of AIDS prevention and control and the huge gaps in the health workforce needed to address these and other critical shortages.

  • African medical education gets a $130 million boost in NIH/PEPFAR initiative Exit Disclaimer
    Nature, October 07, 2010
    When Francis Collins first took the helm at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year, he marked global health as one of five “themes” that would receive special priority from his office.


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