Healers Abroad
eBook - PDF

Healers Abroad

Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS

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  1. 265 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Healers Abroad

Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS

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About this book

Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS calls for the federal government to create and fund the United States Global Health Service (GHS) to mobilize the nation1/2s best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and Southeast Asian countries. The dearth of qualified health care workers in many lowincome nations is often the biggest roadblock to mounting effective responses to public health needs. The proposal1/2s goal is to build the capacity of targeted countries to fight the HIV/AIDS pandemic over the long run. The GHS would be comprised of six multifaceted components. Full-time, salaried professionals would make up the organization1/2s pivotal 1/2service corps, 1/2 working side-by-side with other colleagues already on the ground to provide medical care and drug therapy to affected populations while offering local counterparts training and assistance in clinical, technical, and managerial areas.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2005
eBook ISBN
9780309549523
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Reviewers
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Contents
  6. Tables, Figures, and Boxes
  7. Executive Summary
  8. 1 Introduction
  9. 2 Confronting HIV/AIDS on the Ground
  10. 3 New Routes of Engagement Against Global HIV/AIDS
  11. 4 Envisioning a U.S. Global Health Service
  12. 5 Programs of the U.S. Global Health Service
  13. 6 Looking Ahead
  14. Appendixes
  15. Appendix A Information Gathering Workshop Agendas
  16. Appendix B Ethical Issues in Foreign Health Workforce Assistance Programs
  17. Appendix C Assessing the Human Resource Need for Expanding HIV/AIDS Services in the 15 PEPFAR Focus Countries
  18. Appendix D U.S. Organizational Experience with Volunteer Health Programs
  19. Appendix E E-Health and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Using Technology to Support U.S. Workforce Expansion and Local Capacity Building in PEPFAR Nations
  20. Appendix F ICT Considerations to Support PEPFAR Activities
  21. Appendix G Attributes of Governmental and Nongovernmental Organizational Models for the Potential Administration of the Global Health Service
  22. Appendix H Biographies