Sub Saharan Africa accounts for about 25 percent of all disease in the world, yet it has just three percent of the healthcare workforce to treat it. There are not enough medical and nursing schools and many of the continent’s graduates are recruited to wealthy countries, where health care systems are also under-staffed.
Tonight on PBS NewsHour we report on an effort to educate African providers who’ll stay and serve their home countries by bringing the classroom into the community.
“All over the world medical schools are set up in capital cities, UGHE is a complete opposite to that. It's closer to the community, to the vulnerable, to the poor.” -Abebe Bekele, University of Global Health Equity