CapacityPlus Studies Schools’ Challenges to Produce Enough Nurses

Jul 7, 2010

The Nursing Education Partnership Initiative (NEPI)—the US Government’s unified program to address the underproduction of nursing professionals in developing countries—convened its partners for the first time in June in Washington, DC. NEPI’s goal is to assist in the nursing component of the US Government’s commitment to training 140,000 additional health workers in developing countries by 2015.

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Coordinating Information Systems for Health in East Africa

Jul 7, 2010

CapacityPlus software developer Carl Leitner recently traveled to Kenya to advance the project’s initiatives to strengthen human resources information systems (HRIS). These initiatives entail furthering regional support of the iHRIS software, fostering collaboration with other health information systems implementers in the region, and gathering feedback for future HRIS trainings.

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The HRH Action Framework: A CapacityPlus Featured Resource

Jul 7, 2010

The HRH Action Framework (HAF), a key resource for the CapacityPlus global project, is designed to assist governments and health managers to develop and implement strategies to achieve an effective and sustainable health workforce. By using a comprehensive approach, the HAF helps to address staff shortages, uneven distribution of staff, gaps in skills and competencies, low retention, and poor motivation, among other challenges.

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Global Health Leaders Focus on Community Health Workers

Jun 29, 2010

The Global Health Workforce Alliance organized a consultation meeting in Montreux, Switzerland in April to assess major findings and recommendations of a comprehensive global review of community health workers (CHWs). The review is comprised of eight country case studies from Ethiopia, Mozambique, Uganda, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Thailand, Brazil, and Haiti, with field experiences and perspectives of the various participants.

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1. Health worker strike in Edo State, #Nigeria: http://bit.ly/c3IRjp 1:28 PM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
2. WHO on improving health workforce migration http://bit.ly/9giTtL 12:39 PM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
3. Handy resource: sign up for Global Health Workforce Alliance's "GHWA This Week's News": ghwa@who.int 12:22 PM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
4. #FF @papershadow @LindseyFreeze @jhodlsolomon @unilitecorp @HCLUganda @mmontaner @JRatevosian @JSIhealth @pgaye @K4Health @alissasadler 12:04 PM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
5. Vietnam needs 20,000 health workers for HIV/AIDS fight http://bit.ly/bVereW 11:40 AM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
6. Analysis of Human Resources for Health in African Portuguese-Speaking Countries http://bit.ly/a9WFqx 11:29 AM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
7. Call for session ideas ends today: Global Health Mini-University, Oct. 8: http://bit.ly/aG93rC #usaid 11:03 AM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
8. Join the HRH Exchange and participate in discussion on HRH and maternal/child health July 12-14: http://bit.ly/cit15z 11:00 AM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
9. Our amazing M&E intern's personal reflections on global health from #India to I Street: http://bit.ly/beYsB5 #usaid #globalhealth 6:50 AM Jul 9th via TweetDeck
10. @HCLUganda Thanks, will follow up! 10:20 AM Jul 8th via TweetDeck in reply to HCLUganda
11. Thanks for organizing! RT @JRatevosian: Cheers 2 connecting! #AIDS2010 @CapacityPlus @papershadow @mysteryoussef @alissasadler @mmontaner... 10:19 AM Jul 8th via TweetDeck
12. We're partnering to study schools' challenges to produce enough #nurses: http://bit.ly/bRj81B #globalhealth #usaid 10:18 AM Jul 8th via TweetDeck
13. We are; also @IntraHealthInt. RT @aerasglobaltb: Intl AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) is around the corner! Aeras will be there...who else...? 1:32 PM Jul 7th via TweetDeck
14. HRH Action Framework is a CapacityPlus featured resource for health workforce planning & mgmt. http://bit.ly/bN61QZ #usaid 1:20 PM Jul 7th via TweetDeck
15. Just signed up. RT: Tweeps going to #AIDS2010? Join & get info on tweetups, news... http://bit.ly/aMxiET via @JRatevosian @LAlexanderson 8:53 AM Jul 7th via TweetDeck
16. @HCLUganda Great, could I put you in touch with our technical staff who are working in this area? Please send DM...thanks. 8:44 AM Jul 7th via TweetDeck in reply to HCLUganda
17. How we're coordinating information systems for health in East Africa http://bit.ly/dsU7CO #eHealth 8:42 AM Jul 7th via TweetDeck
18. Developing realistic, achievable health human resource targets in developing countries: http://bit.ly/bQ5oeF via @LindseyFreeze @KarenGrepin 6:49 AM Jul 7th via TweetDeck
19. From our associate partner AAAH: Human resources for health (HRH) capacity-building workshop in Cairo July 12-15 http://bit.ly/cKVsKv 1:37 PM Jul 6th via TweetDeck
20. @HCLUganda Would love to hear more about your work with community health workers in Uganda 11:10 AM Jul 6th via TweetDeck in reply to HCLUganda