Healers Abroad

ISBN: 9780309096164

出版社: Natl Academy Pr

出版年: 2005-6

页数: 264

定价: $ 42.94

装帧: Pap

内容简介

"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 nation's best health care professionals and other highly skilled experts to help combat HIV/AIDS in hard-hit African, Caribbean, and South-east Asian countries. The dearth of qualified health care workers in many low income nations is often the biggest roadblock to mounting effective responses to public health needs. The proposal's 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 organization's pivotal "service corps," 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.