World Health Day is today
 Every day, in some of the world's poorest countries, more than 38,000 people die from infectious diseases and 8,000 people die each day from HIV/AIDS.
Today is World Health Day and there will be events all around the world to highlight the amazing work done by health professionals, and the current "chronic global shortage of health workers". Our very own Sarah Kline was on BBC Breakfast this morning, along with Manuel Dayrit of the World Health Organization (WHO), to talk about this shortage.
They highlighted that 57 countries today are unable to provide basic health care, including immunisations, and of these, 36 are in sub-Saharan Africa. The countries have the vaccines, but they "don't have the qualified staff to administer them", according to the WHO. As the BBC website puts it: "More than four million doctors, nurses, midwives and managers are needed to make up the shortfall."
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