With international funding, Dr. Mocumbi has already seen national lead- ership in pockets of Africa come together to refine strategies to improve health, and with local ingenuity, he avers, much more is possible. For example, an effort to train non–physicians to deliver care has the potential, Dr. Mocumbi believes, to help plug a gaping and deleterious hole in human resources capacity. Nurses with more than five years of experience and medical assistants with more than three years of experience, with additional train- ing, will be able to dramatically increase the medical and surgical services offered to those in need in Mozambique. It’s a tall order, but with ingenuity, partnership and adherence to what Dr. Pascoal.
