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Globalization and its Implications of Health Care and Human Resources in Health Conference

The Asia-Pacific Action Alliance on Human Resources for Health (AAAH) is organizing the 3rd AAAH conference in October 2008, in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The conference will provide a platform to exchange ideas and knowledge and to identify the opportunities and challenges to human resources in health in the current context of globalization.

Addressing the Human Resource in Health Crisis: Empowering the Private Not for Profit Health Training Institutions to Play Their Role

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This presentation was part of the International Conference on Global Health session, “Answering the Call: Innovations in Human Resources by African Faith-Based Organizations.” From the perspective of the Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau experience, the presentation discusses why the private not-for-profit sector is important in service provision and training; why nurses are in the midst of the human resource crisis; obastacles to increasing the training capacity; and what the PNFP health training institutions are doing to address their weaknesses. [adapted from author]

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