Global Health Workforce Alliance Launches

New global alliance seeks to address worldwide shortage of doctors, nurses and other health workers.

25 MAY 2006 | GENEVA -- A new global partnership that will strive to address the worldwide shortage of nurses, doctors, midwives and other health workers was launched today. The Global Health Workforce Alliance will draw together and mobilize key stakeholders engaged in global health to help countries improve the way they plan for, educate and employ health workers. Its secretariat will be hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Responding to the call by African Heads of State, the G-8 and the World Health Assembly for urgent solutions to the health workforce crisis, the Alliance will seek practical approaches to urgent problems such as improving working conditions for health professionals and reaching more effective agreements to manage their migration. It will also serve as an international information hub and monitoring body.

Excerpt from the World Health Organization website

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