The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 280 No 7491 p240
1 March 2008

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Forum on health worker shortages

International shortages of health workers will be highlighted next week when the first global forum on human resources for health convenes in Kampala, Uganda.

The Global Health Workforce Alliance will bring together government, health sector and academic representatives to discuss issues such as migration, education and financing. To coincide with the meeting, the latest issue of The Lancet dedicates itself to human resources.

Commentators suggest that the active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa should be viewed as a crime (2008;371:685).