Today at the Second Global Forum on Human Resources for Health in Bangkok, Thailand, IntraHealth International president and CEO Pape Gaye gave closing remarks at a special event launching a new report, “Will we achieve universal access to HIV/AIDS services with the health workforce we have?” The report, published by the Global Health Workforce Alliance, examines the health workforce implications of trying to reach Millennium Development Goal 6: universal access to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support by 2015. The new publication provides a snapshot of the current situation in five diverse countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Thailand, and Zambia.

IntraHealth served as the secretariat for the technical working group that developed the report, which identifies major challenges hindering health workforce scale-up for universal access, and offers areas of progress and innovation to build on as well as specific actions countries and global leaders should take to address critical gaps. As Gaye noted in his remarks, “The endpoint in all of our HRH discussions has to be health outcomes. The discussions this evening have made that link.”