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CSS, and is des Home Content Area On 21 May 2010 the Member
States of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the WHO
Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of
Health Personnel. This code is the response from governments in
recognizing that a global shortage of health personnel
particularly affects developing countries and that this problem
is somewhat exacerbated by the emigration of health personnel
from these countries. The aim of the Code is therefore to
provide the ethical principles applicable to the international
recruitment of health personnel in a manner that takes into
account the rights and obligations of the source countries,
destination countries and migrant health personnel.
Implementation and monitoring of the Code Although the Code is a
non-binding instrument, it includes measures aimed at
encouraging its implementation. Accordingly, on a voluntary
basis, member states are encouraged, as of 2012, to provide the