Jun 3, 2009, TropIKA.net
The brain drain is a term that fails to convey the staggering number of trained professionals who leave developing countries every year. In Africa, estimates in recent years have put the number at 20,000 annually. Ethiopia lost 75 per cent of its skilled workforce between 1980 and 1991.
Such a massive exodus of qualified Africans is widely seen as stifling both economic and human development. But an innovative strategy embarked upon by a research institution in the West African state of Mali has managed, at least in a small way, to reverse the tide.
The Malaria Research Training Centre (MRTC) runs a scheme, with international collaborators, that has created a critical mass of African scientists able to study malaria and provide evidence to influence control strategies in a country where malaria kills more children under five than any other disease. More on TropIKA.net.
Tatum Anderson 