Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS

Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S Health Professionals

Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS
Format
Paperback
Publisher
National Academies Press
Country
United States
Published
15 November 2005
Pages
264
ISBN
9780309096164

Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS

Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S Health Professionals

Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nation’s best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and South-east Asian countries. The dearth of qualified health care workers in many low income nations is often the biggest roadblock to mounting effective responses to public health needs. The proposal’s goal is to build the capacity of targeted countries to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic over the long run. The GHS would be comprised of six multifaceted components. Full-time, salaried professionals would make up the organization’s pivotal service corps, working side-by-side with other colleagues already on the ground to provide medical care and drug therapy to affected populations while offering local counterparts training and assistance in clinical, technical, and managerial areas.

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