Why Health Workers?
For all of us, health is one of the most important factors affecting quality of life. Far too many people suffer needlessly worldwide from preventable and curable health problems.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in sub-Saharan Africa, where millions lack access to doctors and basic care. This means that mothers often give birth without help from skilled attendants and children may die from malaria, TB, and other diseases that are now rare in the US and other industrialized countries.

Everyone deserves access to basic health care. But we cannot change the reality for millions without getting at a root cause of this crisis: the extreme lack of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other trained health workers.