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Doctor brain drain costs Africa $2 billion
Fri, Nov 25, 2011
Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday. . . . Experts say the migration, or "brain drain," of trained health workers from poorer countries to richer ones exacerbates the problem of already weak health systems in low-income countries battling epidemics of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. . . .
more at: http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/us_african_doctors_migration
Fri, Nov 25, 2011
Sub-Saharan African countries that invest in training doctors have ended up losing $2 billion as the expert clinicians leave home to find work in more prosperous developed nations, researchers said on Friday. . . . Experts say the migration, or "brain drain," of trained health workers from poorer countries to richer ones exacerbates the problem of already weak health systems in low-income countries battling epidemics of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis (TB) and malaria. . . .
more at: http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/us_african_doctors_migration