Background The unmet need for neurosurgery in sub-Saharan Africa is staggering.
Resolving this requires strategies that synergize salient local resources with tailored foreign …

Neurosurgery capacity in low-and middle-income countries is far from adequate; yet burden
of neurological diseases, especially neuro-trauma, is projected to increase exponentially …

Objective Lack of standard neurosurgical training has long been a major factor limiting the
availability of neurosurgical services in most parts of Africa. International collaborative efforts …

Background Neurosurgical capacity is extremely deficient in East African countries where 27
neurosurgeons serve more than 250 million people. To build capacity, the Duke University …

Objective We aim to provide a thorough description of the efforts and outcomes of the Co-
Pilot Project in Ukraine, which facilitates neurosurgical collaboration between American and …

Objective Despite 6 decades of existence, neurosurgery is still in the developing stages in
Nigeria. In this era of collaborative health system capacity-building in low-and middle …

The global deficiency in surgical care has been highlighted in the past several years,
through the publication of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery in 2015, the passage …

1. Dewan MC, Rattani A, Baticulon RE, Faruque S, Johnson WD, Dempsey RJ, et al:
Operative and consultative proportions of neurosurgical disease worldwide: estimation from …

Background Six decades after birth, the path to sustainable neurosurgical education and
care in West Africa remains slow paced. We highlight plain sailing local attributes and global …

Background The paucity of neurosurgical care in East Africa remains largely unaddressed. A
sustained investment in local health infrastructures and staff training is needed to create an …