Merck recognizes that human resource capacity building is a major factor in addressing global health challenges. For example, since 1990, sub-Saharan Africa has been losing 20,000 health care workers a year to other destinations. This hemorrhaging of skills means that Africa has to spend about $4 billion every year on employing non-African expatriates.

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