Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS

Institute of Medicine

doi:10.17226/11270

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Healers Abroad

Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS

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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 nationï¿½s 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 proposalï¿½s 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 organizationï¿½s pivotal ï¿½service corps,ï¿½ 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.

Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine; Board on Global Health; Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals; Fitzhugh Mullan, Claire Panosian, and Patricia Cuff, Editors

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Institute of Medicine. 2005. Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/11270.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/11270

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xxii
Executive Summary	1-18
1 Introduction	19-43
2 Confronting HIV/AIDS on the Ground	44-67
3 New Routes of Engagement Against Global HIV/AIDS	68-85
4 Envisioning a U.S. Global Health Service	86-95
5 Programs of the U.S. Global Health Service	96-137
6 Looking Ahead	138-150
Appendix A Information Gathering Workshop Agendas	151-156
Appendix B Ethical Issues in Foreign Health Workforce Assistance Programs	157-163
Appendix C Assessing the Human Resource Need for Expanding HIV/AIDS Services in the 15 PEPFAR Focus Countries	164-179
Appendix D U.S. Organizational Experience with Volunteer Health Programs	180-194
Appendix E E-Health and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Using Technology to Support U.S. Workforce Expansion and Local Capacity Building in PEPFAR Nations	195-213
Appendix F ICT Considerations to Support PEPFAR Activities	214-224
Appendix G Attributes of Governmental and Nongovernmental Organizational Models for the Potential Administration of the Global Health Service	225-230
Appendix H Biographies	231-242

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