Medecins Sans Frontieres says it is harder to retain healthcare workers.
Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition, June 15, 2007
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), a group that provides an opportunity for healthcare workers to help those in need of medical aid around the world has released a report titled Help Wanted: Confronting the health care worker crisis to expand access to HIV/AIDS treatment.
The report looks specifically at Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, and Lesotho. Right now, MSF provides more than 30,000 people with antiretroviral treatment in those countries. However, the group is trying to continue to provide HIV/AIDS treatment to many more people with a shrinking number of healthcare workers. The report explores why this number is shrinking.
The reasons range from inadequate salaries, poor working conditions, national policies that do not allow for lower-level healthcare workers to perform tasks, insufficient donor funding, and limits placed by governments on money spent on healthcare, the report says.
To read the report, click here.
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