In recent years, Zimbabwe has faced an unprecedented health and human resource crisis. Health workers were leaving their roles due to the country’s instability and cholera ravaged the country: a cholera outbreak that eventually claimed almost 4,500 lives was ravaging the country, while the number of health workers available for duty had shrunk to less than 20% of the initial number.
Zimbabwe’s economic challenges peaked in 2008, with inflation reaching 231 million percent. This caused an unprecedented deterioration of health infrastructure, loss of experienced health professionals, drug shortages and a steep decline in the availability of health services for the population.
FAH supported Zimbabwe in its efforts to address the HRH crisis to ensure health access for all by:
- Supporting community-health strategy co-development and comprehensive community health package (CCHP), with the Ministry of Health as well costing, financial gap analysis, resource mapping & ROI of the operational plan (OP) of the new CH strategy.
- Supporting resource mobilization through Global Fund and/or Global Financing Facility application preparations