Rationale
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Focus on Tropical and Infectious Neglected Diseases
The impact of the lack of access to high-quality and regionally-relevant health information in Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) is especially important for the case of (neglected) tropical and infectious diseases.
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Need for qualitatively trained healthcare professionals
The South-East Asian (SEA) region is predicted to lack 4,5 million qualitatively trained healthcare professionals by 2030, unless ways are found to increase this workforce. WHO (2014) indicates, amongst others, two important elements of workforce development: access to information and quality basic and in-service education.