Guinea: Advancing Gender Equality in the Health Workforce – Insights From the Gulf of Guinea

Following the devastating Ebola outbreak in 2014, it became clear that the health systems in countries in West Africa were not prepared to effectively respond to public health emergencies with the speed and efficiency required to save lives and contain the spread of disease.

This realisation underscored the region’s pressing need to strengthen its health systems, and Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Niger and Togo acted on this task in October 2017 by initiating a collaborative effort…