Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime.pdfVIP

Viewpoint Should active recruitment of health workers from sub-Saharan Africa be viewed as a crime? Edward J Mills, William A Schabas, Jimmy Volmink, Roderick Walker, Nathan Ford, Elly Katabira, Aranka Anema, Michel Jo?res, Pedro Cahn, Julio Montaner Shortages of health-care sta? are endemic in sub-Saharan Africa (table).1 Overall, there is one physician for every 8000 people in the region. In the worst a?ected countries, such as Malawi, the physician-to-population ratio is just 0·02 for every 1000 (one per 50 000). There are also huge disparities between rural and urban areas: rural parts of