Africa still faces 5.85 mn health worker shortfall despite recruitment gains
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 16— Africa remains short of 5.85 million health workers needed to meet its healthcare demands, despite expanding its workforce to 5.72 million in 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) says.
The continent’s health workforce has grown from about 4.3 million in 2018, adding more than 1.4 million nurses, doctors, midwives and other health personnel in six years.
However, the gains remain insufficient to meet Universal Health Coverage targets by 2030.
