Healers Abroad - Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS (Paperback)

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 nationA-A'A1/2s 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 proposalA-A'A1/2s 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 organizationA-A'A1/2s pivotal A-A'A1/2service corps,A-A'A1/2 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.

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2005
First published:	July 2005
Authors:	Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S Health Professionals • Board on Global Health • Institute of Medicine
Editors:	Fitzhugh Mullan • Claire Panosian • Patricia A. Cuff
Creators:	National Academy of Sciences
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-09616-4
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Illness & addiction: social aspects > AIDS: social aspects
LSN:	0-309-09616-2
Barcode:	9780309096164

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