Addressing Africa's Health Workforce Crisis: an Avenue for Action

It is widely acknowledged that Africa’s insufficient health workforce will continue to be a major constraint in attaining the millennium development goals (MDGs) for reducing poverty and disease. The High Level Forum (HLF) in January 2004 also recognized the challenges posed in developing Human Resources for Health (HRH) and the need for actions and strategies to accomplish this. At an international meeting on HRH in Cape Town in September, 2004, the need for an urgent action was highlighted to scale up HRH which requires a concerted action of countries and all other partners and an avenue for action emerged building on a number of efforts in the recent years. [author’s description]