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The Afya Elimu fund plans to raise 1.5 billion Kenyan shillings (KES) by 2018 to train 20,000 health workers and help bridge Kenya’s health workforce shortage, which currently stands at a ratio of 15 health workers per 10,000 people.

The Frontline Health Workers Coalition (FHWC) has released a new policy analysis, Prioritizing Community Health Worker Data for Informed Decision-Making, aimed at highlighting this acute need for data on health workers on the frontlines of care.

Health workers deliver a triple return for health, economic growth and global health security. Investing in swelling the ranks of skilled health staff is therefore pivotal to achieving the ambitious Global Goals to improve health, prosperity and sustainable development by 2030.

By Dr. Ross “Rusty” Segan, Johnson & Johnson A surgical colleague of mine once offered a hypothesis to his group of eager medical students: everyone lives in at least one of three states - pre-op, intra-op and post-op. At first, I thought this was simply an attempt to grab the attention of these...

By Maura Christopher, American College of Nurse-Midwives Imagine being a novice midwife in rural Zambia. You’re working in a peripheral health center in a remote area where you are the only health worker. You are totally alone except for a cleaner and a guard. You regularly confront emergency...

By One Million Community Health Workers Campaign 103 newly trained community health workers from the Amansie West District of Ghana at their graduation ceremony. Courtesy One Million Community Health Workers Campaign. In June 2015 the One Million Community Health Workers Campaign hosted a workshop...

By Indrani Kashyap , Jhpiego In her coastal farming village in eastern India, Dibyashree Behara knew that getting sick meant visiting a local healer or traditional medicine practitioner. “In my village, there is no doctor. One has to walk many miles before they can show themselves to a doctor or a...

By Chanza Baytop, Abt Associates HealthRise is a five-year, $17-million global effort with funding and thought leadership from the Medtronic Foundation designed to expand access to care for cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes among underserved populations in Brazil, India, South Africa and the...

By Enock Mnyenyembe, White Ribbon Alliance. Malawi Introduction by Elena Ateva, White Ribbon Alliance. The vital contributions of midwifery for women and newborns to survive and thrive is well recognized. The 2014 Lancet Series on Midwifery proved the case for a renewed commitment to midwifery that...

By Vince Blaser, Frontline Health Workers Coalition This post was originally posted on the Global Health Council blog. The placards went from horizontal to vertical—indicating their nation wished to speak. One after another—from Guinea to Switzerland, Thailand to the United States—they spoke with...