WORLD HEALTH COMMUNICATION ASSOCIATES

WHO has chosen Human Resources for Health as the theme for next year's World Health Day and World Health Report. It will focus on the Health Workforce, and the crisis faced by many health systems with loss of health professionals to AIDS, and migration to other countries and other sectors. Workforce issues have been identified as the bottleneck to achieving the Millenium Development Goals and priority disease control initiatives. WHCA has been working with WHO, Geneva, on elaborating a Communications Strategy for World Health Day 2006.