{"id":43998,"date":"2026-08-28T11:06:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43998"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T09:06:35","slug":"who-strategy-targets-three-million-additional-health-workers-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/who-strategy-targets-three-million-additional-health-workers-across-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO strategy targets three million additional health workers across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>African Health Ministers gathered at the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Committee summit have formally adopted the Africa Health Workforce Agenda 2035, launching a landmark continent-wide campaign to train, recruit, and retain three million additional healthcare workers over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The ambitious strategy aims to boost patient care, expand access to medical professionals in underserved rural communities, and bridge half of the continent&#8217;s existing healthcare staffing deficit. Under the new framework, African nations will scale up health investments by an estimated four to six United States Dollars per person annually, creating thousands of new public sector jobs for qualified nurses, doctors, and midwives while curbing the outflow of medical talent abroad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking from the summit, Dr James Avoka Asamani, Team Lead for Health Workforce at the WHO Regional Office for Africa, pointed out that every Dollar invested in recruiting and retaining healthcare staff yields substantial economic growth and massive social returns for local communities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The initiative also introduces specialised rural training pathways and improved compensation packages to ensure that new medical professionals are positioned directly where they are needed most.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34339,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43998","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"African Ministers adopt plan to add three million health workers","published_date":"2026-08-28 11:06:02","news_description":"African Ministers adopt plan to add three million health workers","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43999,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43998\/revisions\/43999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}