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The success of PEPFAR – the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief – depends in large part on healthcare workers in African countries.  But there’s a shortage of those workers, as many leave for better opportunities elsewhere.  As a result, PEPFAR has a new program to try to solve the problem.  The issue was addressed at the 18th International AIDS Conference in Vienna.

 

The new phase of PEPFAR – known as PEPFAR II - calls for extending treatment to more than four million patients, preventing 12 million new infections and providing care for 12 million people living with HIV.

“To meet these goals, PEPFAR will need to support the training of large numbers of new healthcare workers in order to deliver the services,” says Deborah von Zinkernagel, the principal deputy U.S. global AIDS coordinator¹.

Train and retain

She says, “We have a legislative² mandate³ in the second phase of PEPFAR to increase the number of healthcare workers in the workforce⁴ by 140,000.  And what is meant with that, there was an emphasis placed on training and deployment⁵ of doctors and nurses, as well as other professionals and paraprofessionals.  And to look at that within the context as well of recruitment and retention⁶ issues and the larger dynamics⁷, which are impacting the workforce.”

 

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Deborah Von Zinkernagel, PEPFAR

For example, many doctors and nurses who are trained in Africa often leave the continent for higher pay and better opportunities abroad.

“The issues have been raised today that you can train and train and train and if people are leaving and leaving – or they train and there’s no job to go to – you haven’t really looked at the policy environment in which you’re providing educational services,” she says.

Von Zinkernagel says PEPFAR II also calls for supporting the training institutions themselves.

“The Medical and Nursing Education Partnership⁸ Initiative is $20 million set aside this year to expand the clinical capacity and clinical quality of African medical and nursing schools and to strengthen these institutions in their mission.”

To help retain the faculty⁹ at medical schools, more opportunities for research and advancement¹⁰ will be offered.

The first part of the plan provides U.S. funding for up to nine African medical schools working in partnership with U.S. medical schools and universities.  And eventually there will be two coordinating¹¹ centers that will bring together doctors and nurses from across the continent to share lessons learned.
 

1 coordinator   

n.协调人

参考例句：

• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, headed by the Emergency Relief Coordinator, coordinates all UN emergency relief. 联合国人道主义事务协调厅在紧急救济协调员领导下，负责协调联合国的所有紧急救济工作。
• How am I supposed to find the client-relations coordinator? 我怎么才能找到客户关系协调员的办公室？

2 legislative   

n.立法机构，立法权；adj.立法的，有立法权的

参考例句：

• Congress is the legislative branch of the U.S. government.国会是美国政府的立法部门。
• Today's hearing was just the first step in the legislative process.今天的听证会只是展开立法程序的第一步。

3 mandate   

n.托管地；命令，指示

参考例句：

• The President had a clear mandate to end the war.总统得到明确的授权结束那场战争。
• The General Election gave him no such mandate.大选并未授予他这种权力。

4 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

5 deployment   

n. 部署,展开

参考例句：

• He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
• Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。

6 retention   

n.保留，保持，保持力，记忆力

参考例句：

• They advocate the retention of our nuclear power plants.他们主张保留我们的核电厂。
• His retention of energy at this hour is really surprising.人们惊叹他在这个时候还能保持如此旺盛的精力。

7 dynamics   

n.力学，动力学，动力，原动力；动态

参考例句：

• In order to succeed,you must master complicated knowledge of dynamics.要取得胜利，你必须掌握很复杂的动力学知识。
• Dynamics is a discipline that cannot be mastered without extensive practice.动力学是一门不做大量习题就不能掌握的学科。

8 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

9 faculty   

n.才能；学院，系；(学院或系的)全体教学人员

参考例句：

• He has a great faculty for learning foreign languages.他有学习外语的天赋。
• He has the faculty of saying the right thing at the right time.他有在恰当的时候说恰当的话的才智。

10 advancement   

n.前进，促进，提升

参考例句：

• His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
• The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。

11 coordinating   

v.使协调，使调和( coordinate的现在分词 )；协调；协同；成为同等

参考例句：

• He abolished the Operations Coordinating Board and the Planning Board. 他废除了行动协调委员会和计划委员会。 来自辞典例句
• He's coordinating the wedding, and then we're not going to invite him? 他是来协调婚礼的，难道我们不去请他？ 来自电影对白