Last month I attended an important pan-African meeting organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Zimbabwe. The consultation’s theme was “Optimizing HIV Treatment Access and Retention in Care: Linking community level interventions with health care delivery systems.” WHO, which is mandated to advise governments on different interventions, has realised that… Read more »

In New York, the issue of health workers was heard loud and clear at the UN General Assembly last month, through the actions of a wide ranging coalition of NGOs including VSO.  The aim was to bring attention to the global shortage of health workers and to encourage world leaders to be… Read more »

When rich countries recruit workers from poorer countries they often deprive the source countries of expertise, knowledge and skills.  However, the World Health Organisation‘s Code of Good Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Workers from poorer countries will help to prevent this.

In Geneva, last month, the World Health Assembly reviewed… Read more »