Impacts of the Nursing Education
Partnership Initiative (NEPI)
“… we need to rapidly
bolster the global health
workforce. Africa alone
will require one million
new health workers...
Without such a dramatic
increase in capacity,
immunizations will not be
administered;…curable
diseases will remain
untreated; and women
will keep dying needlessly
in childbirth”2
Ban Ki-moon
An AIDS free generation is not possible…
• Without an adequate number of front line health workers, especially nurses and midwives, and
• Without strengthening the existing health workforce
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Global Health Care Worker Crisis
• There is an estimated shortage of over 4 million midwives, nurses, doctors In Africa
• Over 57 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, have a critical shortage
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Global Health Care Worker Crisis
5 % of global work force
South East Asia
Africa
Western Pacific
Eastern Mediterranean
Europe Americas
The Big 5: We need to strengthen the health workforce for HIV for an AIDS-free
generation to improve…
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The role of PEPFAR/NEPI in strengthening the health workforce
in Malawi
• Improve the quantity and quality, and relevance of nurses and midwives to address HIV epidemic and other health threats.
• Identify, evaluate, and disseminate innovative models and practices that are generalizable for national scale-up of nursing and midwifery education.
• Build local and regional partnerships to transform environment of practice for nursing/midwifery and for sustainability of the achievements.
Achievements of NEPI in Malawi and other implementing countries
• Increased number of nurses/midwives competent in delivery of high quality services for HIV.
• Built capacity of nursing schools by enhancing faculty skills, curricula, and experiences for students.
• Strengthened nursing and midwifery institutions.
• Advanced role of nurses/midwives.
• Enhanced partnerships with national, regional and global nursing/midwifery programs and other networks.
Acknowledgements
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• This work has been supported by PEPFAR through U.S. DHHS, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) under the terms of the Global Nurse Capacity Building Program, cooperative agreement #U92HA12772.
• The contents are the responsibility of ICAP and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Government.
