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What is GHSC?

GHSC is helping to provide a sustainable solution to addressing the vast shortages of health professionals in many parts of the world.

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Launching this spring, Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP) is a public-private partnership between GHSC and the Peace Corps.

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Between 2003 and 2009, the number of university based global health programs has more than quadrupled from 8 to over 40 such programs

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U.S. funding for global health in 2008 was less than 1% of our $3 trillion budget

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The World Health Organization estimates there is a critical shortage of 2.4 million doctors, nurses and midwives in 57 countries around the world

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53% of the U.S. public already believes that improving education aid to developing countries should be a top priority for the President and Congress

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Sub-Saharan Africa has 24% of the global burden of disease, but only 3% of the global health workforce and only 1% of the world’s health expenditure

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60% of global mortality is from non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory disease and cancer; 80% of those deaths are in low- and middle- income countries

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Percent of women attending a prenatal clinic in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa were found to be HIV-positive

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Africa has only 2.3 health workers per 1,000 people; Southeast Asia has only 43 per 1,000 people. The Americas have on average 24.7 per 1,000 people and Europe 18.9

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In 2005, 53 of the 60 countries that account for 94% of child deaths were NOT on track to reach the Millennium Development Goal to reduce child mortality

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Preventable causes account for 73% of deaths in children under 5: pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, neonatal pneumonia or sepsis, preterm delivery, and asphyxia at birth

Sub-Saharan Africa has a physician-to-population ratio of 18 per 100,000, compared with countries such as India which has 60 per 100,000, Brazil 170 per 100,000, the US which has 250 per 100,000 and France which has the highest of 370 per 100,000

Building Capacity Through Health Service

What is GHSC?

The Global Need

The Joint Program

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