AU Warns Against Training Health Workers Without Jobs and Retention Plans

African Union (AU) Commissioner for Health, Ambassador Amma Twum-Amoah, has cautioned that training health professionals without creating opportunities for employment and retention amounts to a waste of public investment and human potential. Speaking at the African Union Extraordinary Health Summit in Accra on Tuesday, July 21, 2026, she said Africa must shift its focus from simply increasing the number of health workers to building sustainable systems that recruit, fairly compensate, protect,…