Institute of Medicine

Board on Global Health

Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals

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 nationÃ¯Â¿Â½s 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 proposalÃ¯Â¿Â½s 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 organizationÃ¯Â¿Â½s pivotal Ã¯Â¿Â½service corps,Ã¯Â¿Â½ 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.

Committee on the Options for Overseas Placement of U.S. Health Professionals

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