In both settings the health systems are weak, facing severe human resources for health shortages and, infrastructure and drug supply problems.
As a result of the 1994 genocide, Rwanda faces one of the world's most severe human resources for health shortages.
Uganda is one of 57 countries (36 in sub-Saharan Africa) identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as having a severe human resources for health (HRH) crisis [ 1].
Low- and middle- income countries (LMICs) currently face severe human resources for health (HRH) shortages and this reduces their ability to provide even the most basic health care to their citizens (2).
Attention is turning to nurses, who form the greatest proportion of health personnel worldwide, to play a greater role in delivering health services amidst a severe human resources for health crisis and overwhelming disease burden in low-income countries.
In view of the large number of cases and the severe resource constraints, methods for achieving parenteral access in the context of Ebola virus disease (EVD) need to be simple, easy and quick, and must not put healthcare workers at unnecessary risk.
All efforts to build individual and institutional capacity continue to take place in the context of severe resource constraints and competition for scarce human resources.
The InFRA algorithm is a distributed heuristic to the minimal Steiner tree, and it is suitable for networks with severe resource constraints, such as WSNs.
Convening stakeholders and running training workshops all require additional funds, which was perceived as burdensome, since teams had severe resource constraints and had not budgeted for the LDP in advance.
This cadre has limited training in providing maternal care, but due to severe human resource for health shortage in the country, they are staffing a significant proportion of dispensaries and higher health facilities [ 21, 22].
