Coronavirus: How vulnerable are health workers in Nigeria?

While African governments give aid to their citizens during the Covid-19 pandemic, sex workers have seemingly been forgotten.

 Prof Japhet Killewo, a medical doctor and Epidemiologist from Muhimbili University, speaks to experts who convened in Dar es Salaam to share research findings and discuss meaningful policies to address maternal and newborn health in Tanzania. The third year dissemination workshop was sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and organized by partners within the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Muhimbili University, Johns Hopkins University and...

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>The government is working to redraft its policy to allow the direct employment of health workers to curb the existing staff shortage unlike the current situation where they have to apply for the vacancies.

 The situation at Bulyanhulu Gold Mine is somewhat uneasy, in the wake of allegations by some workers that the management is violating occupational and safety regulations.

Rights groups say coronavirus restrictions are leaving vulnerable trans people even more exposed.

The government has lived up to its healthcare plans last week when it announced that it would send over 5,000 rural health workers for formal training.

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New plan to beef up health workers launched
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THE Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has launched its third Human Resources for Health and Social Welfare Strategic Plan (HRHSP) aiming, among other things, to reduce the gaping deficit of health workers from 52 per cent in 2014 to 30 per cent by ...