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The African region is the only WHO region in which health worker shortages are projected to increase by 2030. This poses an enormous challenge for health equity and the attainment of universal health care in Africa. The continent, which is already disproportionately affected by the global disease burden, risks falling further behind in health outcomes. Existing health worker shortages are exacerbated by the significant volume of emigration of health professionals, giving rise to a continuous brain drain on the continent, as discussed at our recent policy dialogue. At a recent meeting in Namibia, African governments and other health sector stakeholders took decisive action to address health worker shortages. They launched a new African Health Workforce Investment Charter, which sets a bold target of halving the African region’s critical 6.1-million health workforce shortage by 2030. Announcing the Charter, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, said, "By investing in the health workforce, we not only address the challenges within the sector but also generate dividends in education, employment and gender equality.” https://lnkd.in/ecC8KbTe

Next week, WHO/AFRO will launch the Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter at a Forum in Namibia! IntraHealth is proud to support the Charter and Forum and urges all ministers, donors, and civil society invited to attend and make concrete commitments to #InvestInHealthWorkers! Read WHO/AFRO's press release: https://lnkd.in/eGxi5m-u Africa is facing a shortage of 5.3 million health workers needed to reach universal health coverage, along with other challenges, including rising unemployment, excessive out-migration, and low quality of training. The Charter boldly aims to cut Africa's health workforce shortage in half by mobilizing and aligning domestic and partner funding to strengthen, grow, and retain the continent’s health workforce, especially in rural and primary health care settings. On May 6 - 8 the African Health Workforce Investment Forum will engage African ministers of health, finance, education, and labor, along with 150 other stakeholders. Thanks to Janet Muriuki, our director of health workforce development, for serving on the expert Technical Working Group finalizing the Charter and representing IntraHealth at the Forum. WHO/AFRO is organizing the Forum. Other partners supporting the Forum include the International Labour Organization-OECD-WHO Working for Health (W4H) Programme and its Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF), The Global Fund and Frontline Health Workers Coalition. #HealthWorkers #HealthSystems World Health Organization

#WHOAfrica launches the African health workforce investment Charter. Forecasts are that the WHO African Region will face an estimated shortfall of 5.3 million health workers by 2030, exacerbated by challenges including underinvestment in training and employment opportunities for health workers, inadequate incentives, and burgeoning migration. To achieve the goal of cutting by half health worker shortages in African countries by 2030, the charter seeks to facilitate strategic investment in #healthworkforce #education and #employment creation to support existing regional commitments and country plans. The implementation of these has been constrained by inadequate financing, siloed and ad hoc interventions, and inefficient investment approaches

Africa Launches Historic Health Investment Charter to Tackle Critical Health Worker Shortages In a landmark initiative poised to transform healthcare across Africa, the continent is set to unveil its first-ever health investment charter at the African Health Workforce Investment Forum in Windhoek, Namibia, from May 6-8, 2024. This pioneering charter aims to mobilize resources and strengthen efforts to address the severe shortage of health workers, a pressing issue that threatens health systems and public well-being. Africa faces a critical shortfall of 5.3 million health workers, prompting the ambitious goal of halving this deficit by 2030 through concerted investment and strategic partnerships. The African Health Workforce Investment Charter will rally both domestic and international funding to bolster the recruitment, training, and retention of health professionals, particularly in rural and primary healthcare settings. Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa, underscores the urgency of this initiative, emphasizing the detrimental impact of underinvestment and workforce migration on healthcare delivery across the continent. Efforts will focus on optimizing health workforce management to combat inefficiencies and ensure resour... #Africa #Health #HealthWorker

📣 In one week, the WHO Regional Office for Africa (WHO/AFRO) will launch the Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter at a Forum in Windhoek, Namibia! The Charter boldly aims to cut Africa's health workforce shortage in half. Read the press release: https://lnkd.in/eGxi5m-u Africa is facing a shortage of 5.3 million health workers needed to reach universal health coverage, along with other challenges, including rising unemployment, excessive out-migration, and low quality of training. WHO/AFRO, in collaboration with Member States and partners, developed the Charter to mobilize and align domestic and partner funding to strengthen, grow and retain the continent’s health workforce, especially in rural and primary health care settings. On May 6 - 8 the African Health Workforce Investment Forum will engage African ministers of health, finance, education, and labor, along with 150 other stakeholders. We're proud to support the Charter and the Forum and urge all ministers, as well as donors, multilateral institutions, and civil society invited to attend the Forum and make concrete commitments to #InvestInHealthWorkers. WHO/AFRO is organizing the Forum. Other partners supporting the Forum include the International Labour Organization-OECD-WHO Working for Health (W4H) Programme and its Multi-Partner Trust Fund (MPTF), and The Global Fund. #InvestInHealthWorkers #HealthWorkers #HealthSystems World Health Organization

Healthcare workforce shortages affect the quality of health services. In Zimbabwe, the World Health Organization is working with Africa University to fortify health systems and find ways to invest in human resources: https://lnkd.in/g8wBABvP #SystemsStrengthening #HealthServices #HumanResources

To keep health care services on the right track, Human Resources for Health (HRH) remain to be a significant component toward achieving the goal of providing quality health care services to the community under the umbrella of easy accessibility and affordability. But the problem comes when inconveniences and misunderstandings arises among health care workers, regarding to taking responsibility and their relations in offices, the factor that negatively affect the mission of the ministry of health (MoH) on the provision of health care services. This critical issue clearly uncover the pressing need to navigate toward the great action of strengthening and enhancing active adherence to labour laws, ethics and code of conduct in both public and private health sector, promoting understanding on health care policies and other guiding principles to healthcare workers in order to  reduce the prevalence of conflicts and irresponsibility among health care workers, and ultimately ensuring accountability and effiency in taking charge of providing quality health care services to the society. Amref Health Africa Tanzania, Tanzania Better Health, World Health Organization, Ntuli Kapologwe, Mariam Haji, Kelvin Mwita. #Health #HRH #Equality #Ethicsandcompliance

The World Health Organization Africa launched a Health Workforce Investment Charter. This should serve as a good guide for member states in steering resources to strengthen and develop health workforce. It is, however, ironical already that they are keen on ‘retention of health workers’ when the same members states such as Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria are advanced in their push for ‘migration policy’ that enables ‘bilateral arrangements’ for export of health workforce. The challenge will remain the translation of these nice things to practice as already said by the Namibian Prime Minister.

https://lnkd.in/gHiVijPQ With a bold target of halving Africa’s critical 5.3-million-person health workforce shortage by 2030, the African Health Workforce Investment Charter is expected to mobilize and align domestic and partner funding to strengthen, grow and retain the continent’s health workforce, especially in rural and primary health care settings.

Post COVID-19 pandemic, global demand for healthcare workers increased exponentially, leading to health workforce migration from low income and middle income countries. Migration of health workforce is negatively affecting the health systems of developing countries like Nigeria. To manage this challenge, the Nigerian Government through the federal ministry of health (FMOH) has commenced the development of a National Health Workforce Migration Policy. The health workforce team of Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc., the World Health Organization Nigeria, other partners, health regulatory bodies, Government Ministries and agencies and the Civil Society organizations are supporting the FMOH to develop this policy. in a five day health workforce migration policy draft development in Kano State Nigeria, I led the Retention and Incentives; Digital health; and Research, Innovation and Strategy sub-group to develop policy objectives and policy statements that will attract, retain health workforce in Nigeria and enhance migrant healthcare workers across the world to provide services to Nigeria people through digital platforms - telehealth. Other sub-groups worked on health workforce migration Governance and leadership, Pre-service, MoU and bilateral agreements, and other thematic areas. In couple of weeks, the draft policy will be validated by both national and global stakeholders. after the Minister of health will sign off the policy for onward implementation. #Healthworkforce, #Humanresourceforhealth