“Almost all our health facilities have for many years suffered from severe health worker deficits,” says Dr. Margaret Ogola, national executive secretary for health at the Catholic Church’s Kenya Episcopal Conference (KEC) in Nairobi. In Kenya, the faith-based organizations KEC and Christian...

When Astou Ndèye's labor began, her husband, in-laws and family worried. Astou had bled so much when she gave birth previously that she had to be transferred to the regional hospital.

In Senegal, postpartum hemorrhage (PPH)—rapid, excessive blood loss after delivery that can cause a...

“We need a more balanced geographic distribution of health professionals in Rwanda,” explains Bonita Baingana, who served until recently as the Rwanda Ministry of Health’s human resources for health (HRH) advisor. The country faces one of the most critical shortages of physicians and nurses in...

“We are no longer overwhelmed by sick patients coming to the health center. The cases of fever are treated at the community level, and we are delighted to have found work for our community health workers.”

Health providers at Masaka Health Center breathed a collective sigh of...

“The HRH Global Resource Center is the preeminent resource on HR that serves the developing world, and maybe even the developed world, in health,” says Tim Martineau, senior lecturer in HR management at the International Health Research Group, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

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Tanzania, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare urgently needs health workers to serve hard-to-reach communities. "They're in desperate need of hiring people in rural districts," says Shari Adler, who has been working with the Capacity Project in Dar es Salaam.

In the country's...

Tiblet’s life changed in an instant. Married the year before and still just 19, Tiblet had imagined bringing her first child home after she gave birth; instead she delivered a dead fetus at the health center, after laboring for three days at home in Ethiopia’s Adet Woreda. Two days later, she...