177 SAJS VOL. 58 NO. 4 DECEMBER 2020 stakeholders, and the NSOAP must be
incorporated into the national health strategic plans for provision of EESC. Buy-in from …

More than three years have passed since the publication of the Lancet Commission on
Global Surgery and its recommendations on scaling up surgery in sub-Saharan Africa …

Addressing global health disparities in the developing world gained prominence during the
first decade of the twenty-first century. The HIV/AIDS epidemic triggered much interest in and …

Surgical care is now recognized as a fundamental component of universal health coverage.
Unfortunately, most of the world is still without access to safe and timely surgical care …

Background Although departments of surgery and surgical specialties are well established
components of all medical schools, these departments generally focus on the teaching of …

Lack of access to safe, affordable and quality surgery is a significant problem around the
world. Global surgery is a multidisciplinary field aimed to improve surgical care across …

Recognizing that advancements in global surgery are urgently needed in South Africa,
where health inequity is rampant and surgical knowledge gaps remain, the Southern African …

Although the disparities in access to surgical care around the world were described in 1980
as the “most serious manifestation of social inequity in health care” by Dr Halfdan Mahler …

Worldwide, 4.8 billion people do not have access to safe, adequate surgical care and an-
aesthetic management. Surgical care has been deemed “the neglected child of global …

Success in global surgery interventions cannot be claimed until consistent long-term follow
up is achieved and corresponding outcomes are studied. However, post-operative outcomes …