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Expatriate health volunteers working overseas with volunteer organizations* |
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| Expatriate health volunteers |
Sub-Saharan Africa |
Clinical work |
Other, such as management education policy making |
Comments |
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| Organization |
Total |
Doctors |
Nurses |
Other |
% |
Total number of medical staff (full-time equivalent) |
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| Médecins sans Frontières (all sections) |
2026 |
27% |
30% |
43% |
60% |
1216 |
60% |
40% |
40% non – medical ('public health technicians'). |
| Voluntary Service Overseas (UK) |
215 |
16% |
14% |
70% |
78% |
168 |
20% |
Worldwide: 1382 VSO volunteers. |
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| United Nations Volunteers |
400 |
51% |
16% |
33% |
38% |
152 |
>5600 skilled professionals per year |
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| Oxfam International GB |
272 |
53% |
145 |
100% |
Organization is not a medical NGO, data refer to health advisers, promoters. |
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| Handicap International (France + Belgium) |
179 |
100% |
118 |
100% |
Almost all staff are paramedic (kine, ortho, psychologists). |
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| Medici con l'Africa CUAMM (Italy) |
84 |
67% |
10% |
23% |
84 |
30–40% |
60–70% |
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| Médecins du Monde (France) |
149 |
30% |
20% |
50% |
34% |
51 |
50% |
50% |
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| Action contre la Faim (France) |
42 |
19% |
81% |
0% |
79% |
33 |
0% |
100% |
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| Doctors without Vacation (Belgium) |
(400)† |
46% |
44% |
10% |
100% |
30 |
100% |
Exclusively short term missions (2 to 4 weeks). |
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| Christian Blind Mission (all sections) |
(116)† |
37% |
3% |
60% |
64% |
25 |
53% |
47% |
Many short time missions. |
| World Vision (Europe) |
24 |
100% |
24 |
100% |
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| Cordaid (Netherlands) |
35 |
50% |
25% |
25% |
40% |
14 |
75% |
25% |
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| Save the Children (UK) |
12 |
50% |
50% |
12 |
100% |
Advisors, programme managers. |
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| TOTAL |
2072 |
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* Estimates for 1 January 2005 (only organizations employing more than 10 full-time equivalent expatriate health volunteers in sub-Saharan Africa are reported). †: number dominated by many short mission | |||||||||
Laleman et al. Human Resources for Health 2007 5:19 doi:10.1186/1478-4491-5-19 |
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