Published 7 November 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2464
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2464

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Rural health workers in developing countries need support to stay

Peter Moszynski

1 London

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An international campaign to support rural health workers in the developing world has been launched "to give people caught up in conflict, disaster, and health system collapse the chance to lead healthy lives."

The Hands Up for Health Workers campaign (www.handsupforhealthworkers.org), run by the UK medical charity Merlin, aims to ensure that all health workers in the developing world receive a regular wage and that workers in remote and isolated areas receive incentives to stay.

The charity also wants to secure funding to train the additional health workers who are needed to deliver essential health care, and to refresh the skills of existing ones. All health workers should also be able to practise in a safe and secure working environment, it says.

"No community, let alone country, can hope to achieve social and economic development without enough skilled and motivated health workers," says the charity.

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