Alliance News Digest
Week of 21 May 2010
NEWS FROM WHO AND PARTNERS
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Time to get back on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals – WHO. (5/17)
Speech by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization -
More Condoms, Contraceptives, Midwives, and Educated Girls Could Prevent Most Maternal Deaths―New World Bank Reproductive Action Plan – World Bank. (5/11)
Plan to Help Poor Countries Achieve Their MDG 5 Targets by 2015 -
Call to Action: Passage of Global Code of Practice – HWAI. (May)
Position Statement to Health Leaders Attending 63rd World Health Assembly -
World Health Professions Alliance calls for increased action against counterfeits – WHPA. (5/17)
The main channels for fake medical products supply include street markets in developing countries and the Internet. -
Analysis of a survey on young doctors' willingness to work in rural Hungary – HRH Journal. (5/18)
The severe shortage of qualified healthcare staff in Hungary cannot be quickly or easily overcome -
WHO code of practice to WHA for approval – Wemos Foundation, Netherlands. (5/21)
Medicus Mundi International Network was invited to appoint a representative (Anke Tijtsma- Wemos) to the WHO Executive Board meeting -
The 14th Africa Partnership Forum – CIDA. (4/30)
Speech by The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation -
ICN Issues a Call to Nurses Everywhere: Lead the Fight against Chronic Disease – ICN. (5/12)
As the world faces a massive increase in the levels of death and disability resulting from chronic disease, there is an urgent need for nurses everywhere -
UNAIDS advances agenda for AIDS plus MDGs during 63rd World Health Assembly – UNAIDS. (5/18)
South Africa has launched the world’s largest AIDS initiative that integrates HIV with larger public health goals.”
AFRICA AND MIDDLE EAST
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Govt continues to address pharmacists scarcity – Daily News, Botswana. (5/17)
Challenges to government include international migration of health workers which increases the burden of care on the already overstretched personnel -
GHAG – A new group says “Good health for Ghana is achievable only if...”- Ghana Web. (5/16)
There are Ghanaian healthcare professionals trained in developed countries able and willing to go the country. -
Mogbindi Echo-Free Health Care is Political, Bogus And a Sham – Concord Times, Sierra Leone. (5/17)
The country needs more doctors and nurses before Free Health Care will come to fruition. -
Why can't we train more health workers for export? – Modern Ghana. (5/18)
In Ghana there is always shortage of health workers such as nurses, doctors, paramedics, etc in our hospitals and health centers -
Gulu needs 316 health workers – New Vision, Uganda. (5/19)
GULU district needs 316 health workers to serve in rural health centres
ASIA AND PACIFIC
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14 lakh to take health exam – Indian Express. (5/17)
This is the largest examination being conducted by the Department of Health and Family Welfare -
Health workers risk needle-prick injuries – Hindustan Times, India. (5/13)
Poor needle disposal practices, recapping of used ones and injuries put healthcare workers at high risk of blood-borne infections like HIV, hepatitis B and C -
Taiwanese volunteer medical team finds sacrifices rewarded in Nepal – Focus Taiwan News Channel. (5/16)
Nepalese doctors, nurses, and medical students were invited to work next to their Taiwanese counterparts. -
More nurses eyed for hospital – Saipan Tribune, CNMI. (5/19)
Govt proclaims May 23-29 as CNMI Nurses Week -
State to train helpers to make up female health worker deficit – Indian Express. (5/19)
Health Department has started training medical officers, who would then give orientation lectures to 3,475 HFHW at every village block -
Brave new world of general practice – New Zealand Doctor. (5/19)
Unless there is major change to the way New Zealand health workforce is planned, trained, employed and deployed, the supply of health services will fall short of what is expected and needed -
Health Workforce NZ director appointed – New Zealand Doctor. (5/14)
Media release from Health Workforce New Zealand -
Payroll bungle expected to continue – Brisbane Times. (5/18)
Tens of thousands of Queensland Health staff have been underpaid, overpaid, or not paid at all after new payroll technology was installed in March. -
Morbidity rates unacceptable: midwife – Canberra Times. (5/5)
Two thousand more midwives are needed to maintain the standard of care for mothers and their babies in Australia
NORTH AMERICA
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Health care offers healthy prospects for second careers – Washington Post. (5/16)
. A labor shortage could develop within eight years, with health-care jobs going unfilled -
20 percent nursing shortage expected by 2015 – Times Herald, Georgia. (5/15)
Mainly due to an aging population, a lack of nursing faculty at colleges and technical schools, and a high turnover rate in the profession. -
New Complexities and Approaches to Global Health Diplomacy: View from the U.S. Department of State – PLoS Medicine. (5/11)
Article provides a perspective from US Department of States on current complexities and challenges in global health diplomacy -
Caregivers dump SEIU, vote to join new union – Monterrey Country Herald, CA. (5/18)
More than 100,000 workers in hospitals and nursing homes have filed petitions for union elections, -
Workplace Set to Remain Key Source of Health Coverage – Wall Street Journal. (5/17)
Overall number of Americans with workplace health benefits isn't likely to change much, government analysts suggest -
UTMB to lay off 363 prison health care workers – Austin American Statesman, TX. (5/18)
Critics worry cuts will imperil inmate medical system, land state in court. -
Demand for lab techs rising – Time Colonist, Canada. (5/17)
Medical advances are transforming the jobs of medical laboratory technologists, and contributing to the growing demand for new workers in the field.
EUROPE
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International recruitment of health personnel – The Lancet, UK. (5/15)
At World Health Assembly in Geneva this week, a draft global code of practice on the international recruitment of health personnel will be on the agenda -
Health minister blames unskilled medics for high maternal death rate in Uganda – The Guardian, UK. (5/17)
Stephen Malinga calls for management of health worker training to be returned to his ministry -
Cuba’s medical diplomacy – Financial Times, UK. (5/15)
Today, 37,000 – half of them Cuban doctors, the rest nurses and other specialists – are spread across more than 70 countries -
Health workers and teachers ready to join brain drain as prospects deteriorate – The Guardian, UK. (5/15)
Unions say Britain could be put in absurd position of hiring staff from abroad to fill gap -
Federal Budget Recognises The Central Role Of General Practice, Australia – Medical News Today, UK. (5/13)
Investment in general practice training is critically important to combat general practice workforce shortages throughout Australia -
Retrain axed managers as health workers, says London GP leader – Healthcare Republic, UK. (5/14)
NHS managers should be retrained to provide front line services, London's top GP has suggested. -
Parliament rejects bill to raise social guarantees for Ukrainian health workers – Kyiv Post. (5/18)
Ukraine's parliament, has rejected a bill amending some legislative acts concerning social guarantees for health workers -
Changing perceptions of mental health in Uganda – The Guardian, UK. (5/19)
Health workers do not want to specialise in psychiatry because of the stigma associated with mental illness -
New government will put politics before policy, but money ahead of both, health expert says – BMJ, UK. (5/14)
The priority for the new coalition government will be to strengthen and develop that coalition.
LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN
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PMH readmission rate at 67 percent – The Nassau Guardian, The Bahamas. (5/15)
The Bahamas has 26 nurses to every 10,000 people -
Enfermeras sienten falta de personal – El Universo, Ecuador. (5/13)
La falta de profesionales preocupa sobre el futuro de esta especialidad. -
Cremern fiscaliza hospital de Assu – Tribuna do Norte, Brazil. (5/16)
Atualmente, o Hospital Regional Nelson Inácio dos Santos conta apenas oito médicos, quando o ideal seria contar 21 -
Estado é acionado na justiça pelo CFM e CRM contra médicos sem registro – A Verdade, Brazil. (5/13)
O Termo d Ajustamento de Conduta, foi firmado no ano passado como forma de suprir a carência de médicos -
Faltan 1.500 enfermeros y se reciben menos de 50 por año – Diario Ciudadano, Argentina. (5/18)
Uno de los problemas crónicos del sistema de salud provincial es la falta de enfermeros con formación profesional