The human resources for health program in Rwanda—a new partnership
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2013Author
Binagwaho, Agnes
Kyamanywa, Patrick
Farmer, E. Paul
Nuthulaganti, Tej
Umubyeyi, Benoite
Nyemazi, Jean Pierre
Mugeni, Soline Dusabeyesu
Asiimwe, Anita
Ndagijimana, Uzziel
McPherson, Helen Lamphere
Ngirabega, Jean de Dieu
Sliney, Anne
Uwayezu, Agnes
Rusanganwa, Vincent
Wagner, Claire M
Nutt, Cameron T
Eldon-Edington, Mark
Cancedda, Corrado
Magaziner, Ira C
Goosby, Eric
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The authors discuss the Human Resources for Health Program, which is working to improve the quality and quantity of health professionals in Rwanda by means of sustained collaborations with U.S. schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, and public health. A global shortage of 4.3 million health professionals poses a major bottleneck to poor people worldwide with regard to benefiting from the fruits of modern medicine.(1) Among existing health professionals, there are also staggering inequities in skill levels and geographic distribution.(2)-(4) Unsurprisingly, the deepest national gaps in human resources for health run parallel to poor population-level health outcomes.(1) Sub-Saharan Africa bears 24% of the global burden of disease(5) but is served by only 4% of the global health workforce.(1) The health graduate schools in the region face overwhelming financial, infrastructural, and personnel constraints, limiting their ability to address the ...
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