Providing the Providers — Remedying Africa's Shortage of Health Care Workers

Dr. Cyril Nkabinde, an intern at Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital in Durban, South Africa, grew up dreaming of becoming a doctor — an ambition he inherited from his mother, whose own dream had been thwarted by apartheid. Nkabinde's goal of working as a family physician in rural KwaZulu-Natal has kept him on track, even as he's watched medical school classmates depart for business careers and superiors quit medicine because of a chronic lack of health care resources. Now, as he prepares to marry a fellow physician, Nkabinde realizes that his dream may not be achievable. “The hope is to go . . .