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The UN’s Millennium Development Goals Report 2011 provides a fascinating snapshot of how far we’ve come in improving health outcomes—and how much further we need to go. Unfortunately, the report ignores the health workforce crisis in many of the countries struggling to meet their 2015 health goals. The MDGs cannot be achieved when large numbers of people lack access to a health worker, yet the persistent, severe shortage of…See More

Without current data on health workers, countries cannot ensure that the right provider is in the right place with the right skills. In Botswana, the Ministry of Health is partnering with CapacityPlus to implement iHRIS Manage, CapacityPlus’s free, Open Source software for…See More