Transitioning health workers from PEPFAR contracts to the Uganda government payroll.

ABSTRACT: Although increasing public spending on health worker (HW) recruitments could reduce workforce shortages in sub-Saharan Africa, effective strategies for achieving this are still unclear. We aimed to understand the process of transitioning HWs from President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to Government of Uganda (GoU) payrolls and to explore the facilitators and barriers encountered in increasing domestic financial responsibility for absorbing this expanded workforce. We conducted a multiple case study of 10 (out of 87) districts in Uganda which received PEPFAR support between 2013 and 2015 to expand their health workforce. We purposively selected eight districts with the highest absorption rates ('high absorbers') and two with the lowest absorption rates ('low absorbers'). A tota

SUBMITTER: Zakumumpa H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8505860 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature