Health Workforce Strategy (2023-2030) Training of health personnel, in line with the needs of the sector and to increase annual training outputs, to address the issue of health worker retention. The World Health Organization (WHO) projects a 6.1 million HCW shortage in its African Region, based on the needs of the population and disease prevalence (equating to approximately 60 percent of universal health coverage). This shortfall is compounded by a paradox: the region also faces high unemployment—approximately one in three HCWs are unemployed. This means that about 1.5 million trained HCWs could be missing from the region’s health workforce in 2030 despite the substantial unmet healthcare needs.
