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The fifteen minute pre-recorded show, ‘Health Worker Retention and Migration’, was produced by WWMP, in conjunction with labour journalists in east and southern Africa. It provided an in-depth analysis of the situation for health workers in Africa, and discussed incentives for retaining health workers. In the pre-recorded show, a Khayelitsha nurse who used to work at Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town and migrated to Saudi Arabia Mavis Mpangele, Bongani Lose from Democratic Nurses of South Africa (DENOSA), Kwabena Otoo from the Ghana Trade union Congress, Joel Odijie from Nigeria Trade Union Congress, Professor Yoswa Dambisya of the University of Limpopo Department of Pharmacy and EQUINET Steering Committee, Nyasha Muchichwa from the Labour and Economic Research Institute of Zimbabwe and Percy Mahlathi, the South African Director General of the Department of Health were interviewed. The feature covers the push factors and experiences from different African countries. The feature also explores government responses to the problem as well as African trade unions response. It rounds off with examples of success stories in Zambia and Tanzania.