Our aim is to fill present staffing gaps in the healthcare system, while working toward a more sustainably staffed future – ultimately helping people to view the public sector in a new light – as truly viable and exciting career options. We can place over 20 foreign-qualified doctors at the cost of training just a single doctor. This acts as an excellent immediate stop-gap, with beneficial repercussions for retention and training of local health workers currently in the system. We are also using our monitoring and evaluation capabilities to identify the factors that are driving the brain drain, in order to inform effective strategysetting and advocacy for improved future staff retention.
We work with a network of partners, including governments, the private sector and civil society in order to make this happen, using a model that we like to call “social profit”. The bulk of our services are donor funded and delivered free of charge:
AHP has successfully developed a recruitment and retention model for healthcare facilities based on years of expertise in rural and public health, recruitment, business management and operations. This cycle is the way in which AHP strives to aid healthcare facilities to become self-sustaining – all of which directly translates into improved health care delivery and access to health care in rural areas.