Medical Brain Drain Africa

Diagnosing Africa’s medical brain drain | Africa Renewal

https://www.un.org/africarenewal/magazine/december-2016-march-2017/diagnosing-africa%E2%80%99s-medical-brain-drain

Kasonde Bowa, a professor of urology and dean of Copperbelt University School of Medicine in Ndola, Zambia, told Africa Renewal that medical brain drain can be tackled …

Nkengasong and Ihekweazu are leaving the continent. Is this a …

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/16/africa/africa-health-experts-brain-drain-intl-cmd/index.html

The medical brain drain already comes at a great cost for Africa, which, according to pre-pandemic WHO figures, only has access to 3 percent of the world’s …

African brain drain: is there an alternative? - UNESCO

https://en.unesco.org/courier/january-march-2018/african-brain-drain-there-alternative

Medical brain drain: How many, where and why? - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33465558/

Interestingly, we find that the evolution of medical brain drain is affected by immigration policies aimed at attracting high-skilled workers. In particular, physician migration is …

Covid accelerates Africa’s medical brain drain - tralac

https://www.tralac.org/blog/article/15249-covid-accelerates-africa-s-medical-brain-drain.html

Of the 10 countries where medical migration rates exceed 50 percent (i.e. more than half of the medical graduate corps are working outside their country of origin) six are in sub-Saharan Africa: Liberia (75 …

Nigeria’s medical brain drain: Healthcare woes as …

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2019/4/8/nigerias-medical-brain-drain-healthcare-woes-as-doctors-flee

According to some estimates, about 2,000 doctors have left Nigeria over the past few years. Doctors have blamed the mass exit on poor working conditions – only four percent of Nigeria’s budget is...

Ethics and policy of medical brain drain: a review - PubMed

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24163012/

Health-worker migration, commonly called "medical brain drain", refers to the mass migration of trained and skilled health professionals (doctors, nurses, midwives) …

Africa's medical brain drain | The BMJ

https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7519/780.4

The 20-odd international responses to Johnson's editorial on stopping Africa's medical brain drain agreed that the brain drain is an inescapable reality for the …

How to reverse the medical brain drain | World Economic …

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/how-to-reverse-the-medical-brain-drain

But this leaves the Philippines with its own significant shortage of medical professionals. The situation across Africa is no better. In Kenya, more than 50% of all doctors are now practicing overseas, …

The Medical Brain Drain already Comes at a Great Cost …

https://www.africa.com/the-medical-brain-drain-already-comes-at-a-great-cost-for-africa/

The Medical Brain Drain already Comes at a Great Cost for Africa - Africa.com The Medical Brain Drain already Comes at a Great Cost for Africa Top 10 …