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In December 2009 project staff were in Haiti working on estimating program costs for HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment services.

As in most African countries, Cote d’Ivoire is facing a crisis in human resources for health (HRH) worsened by a high HIV-AIDS prevalence (4.7%) and a civil war from 2002 to 2007. Many health workers have fled from the northern regions to seek refuge in the capital city, Abidjan. At a World Bank event on January 14, 2009, Gilbert Kombe shared insights from Health Systems 20/20 work to develop innovative and sustainable interventions to address the health labor crisis.

Health Systems 20/20 and the Health Workforce Advocacy Initiative have teamed up to develop a toolkit of materials to help Global Fund applicants better understand how they can use Round 9 of the Global Fund to strengthen their countries’ health systems as well as what resources are available to support them in doing so.