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The Brain Drain and Retention of Health Professionals in Africa
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Description
The African continent is facing a health crisis occasioned by a number of factors that have affected the sector over the past two decades or more. These factors include the HIV/AIDS epidemic, the reemergence of old communicable diseases such as TB and Malaria, and the apparent paradox of increasing levels disorders linked to changing lifestyles and degenerative diseases. In addition are perennial problems affecting health systems that stem from the economic difficulties in our countries leading to very low funding of health services and deterioration of health service infrastructure.