Headline : Africa: Global Fund Hails Launch of Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter

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Windhoek — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), warmly welcomes the launch of the Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter, which was signed today in Windhoek, Namibia, at the Africa Health Workforce Investment Forum.

The African continent bears a quarter of the global disease burden and endures over 100 health emergencies a year. Yet half of the global shortage in health workers affects the continent, which has only 4% of the global workforce. To date, 1 in 3 qualified health workers in Africa is unemployed or underemployed, given challenging macro-economic contexts, imbalances in health labor markets, unfavorable working conditions in health, and safeguarding and security risks. The World Health Organization (WHO) forecasts that its African Region (47 countries) will face an estimated shortfall of 5.3 million health workers by 2030.

The Charter - developed by WHO in collaboration with African Member States, the Global Fund and other partners - sets out core principles aimed at stimulating and aligning sustainable long-term investment in health workforce education and employment creation around a common national investment plan, rooted in solid analysis like the health labor market analysis. This will reduce duplication and potential inefficiencies, and, in turn, help mobilize additional resources countries need to progress towards universal health coverage and the delivery of an essential health package. The main objective is to cut health worker shortages by half in African countries by 2030.

"The launch of the Africa Health Workforce Investment Charter is a significant milestone for the African continent and for all investors in the health workforce, and we are proud to have supported its development and signed it," said Shunsuke Mabuchi, Head of Resilient and Sustainable Systems for Health and Pandemic Preparedness and Response at the Global Fund. "We commend our partners' strong endorsement of the health workforce principles and actions enshrined in the Charter, and we look forward to supporting its implementation."

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