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Journalist fellowship programme - articles

• A Yemeni postcard from the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health.
  16 February 2011 | Blog article by Afrah Nasser on the 2nd Global Forum, including interviews with Dr Sheikh, Alliance Executive Director and Dr Jamal Nasher, Undersecretary for Yemen's Ministry of Public Health.
• Love and acceptance are what HIV patients crave for in Wat Pra Baht Nam Phu
  7 February 2011 | Blog article by Afrah Nasser on the field visit to a Buddhist Temple, home to 550 HIV positive patients.
• The role of health workers in preventing child mortality
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  February 2011 | Article by Afrah Nasser based on an interview with Ben Philips, Asia strategy Director for Save the Children.
• Renewing commitments to strengthen health workforce
  5 February 2011 | Article by Dr Tareq Salahuddin published in the Daily Star on the 2nd Global Forum with a focus on Bangladesh.
• Doctors in Indonesia Prefer Big City Lights To Rural Rigor
  1 February 2011 | Article by Dessy Sagita published in the Jakarta Globe on the urban rural divide. Dessy interviewed health workers, Alliance Executive Director Dr Sheikh and Adang Bachtiar, the director of the Center for Health Administration and Studies of Faculty of Public Health at the University of Indonesia.
• Midwives Nurses key to rural health
  1 February 2011 | Article by Dessy Sagita published in the Jakarta Globe on Community Health Workers including quotes from Robert E. Black, a public health professor from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Ben Philips from Save the Children and other key participants.
• Monks at a Rural Thai Temple Restore Dignity and Serenity to People with AIDS
  9 February 2011 | Article by Dessy Sagita published in the Jakarta Globe on the field visit to a Buddhist Temple, home to 550 HIV positive patients.
• Country Coordination and Facilitation in Indonesia
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  February 2011 | Article by Dessy Sagita on the CCF situation in Indonesia, including quotes from Alliance Executive Director Dr Sheikh and Dr Rueckert from GIZ.
• Health worker crisis; can there be an ethical recruitment of international health workers
  25 January 2011 | Blog article by Rosebell Kagumire on the international recruitment of health workers.
• The plight of Ugandan health workers
  3 March 2011 | Article by Rosebell Kagumire published in the Daily Monitor on the blame put on the health workers for poor delivery of health service and the current state of the health care system in Uganda.
• MDGs cannot be achieved without addressing health workforce issues
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  February 2011 | Article by Rosebell Kagumire on the launch of the report "Will we achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS services with the health workforce we have? A snapshot from five countries".
• Kagumire article on the Second Global Forum
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  February 2011 | Article by Rosebell Kagumire on the Second Global Forum.
• Interview with Dr Isaac Houinsou Hans
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  February 2011 | Interview by Carmen Toudonou with Dr Isaac Houinsou Hans, representative of the Benin Ministry of Health at the Second Global Forum. (in French)
• World bell for health crisis before MDGs 2015
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  31 January 2011 | Article by Phal Sovann Vathey, Health News Reporter of Cambodia News, highlighting key elements of the global health workforce cirsis.
• WHO Hails Kenya for Health Progress
  21 February 2011 | A special report by Jesse Masai from Bangkok, Thailand, published in Obaasema, including quotes from Dr Peter Ngatia, AMREF’s Director for Capacity Building.
• Buddhist Temple that Cares for Full Blown AIDS patients.
  23 February 2011 | A special report by Jesse Masai from Lopburi, Thailand on the field visit to a Buddhist Temple, home to 550 HIV positive patients.
• Kenya Must End Nurse Exodus.
  23 February 2011 | A special report by Jesse Masai from Bangkok, Thailand on the international recruitment of health workers, including interviews with Alliance Executive Director Dr Sheikh and WHO’s Director for Human Resources for Health, Dr. Manuel Dayrit.