Background The development of pediatric surgical care in Africa has suffered from the
neglect of health policy makers, yet surgery remains an essential component of basic …

Pediatric surgery in sub-Saharan Africa is disadvantaged by the large number of sick
children, disease patterns specific to the region, late presentation, and advanced pathology …

The evolution and recognition of pediatric surgery as a specialty in Africa can be divided into
4 distinct phases, starting from early 1920s till the present. The pace of development has …

Pediatric age groups constitute more than 50% of the Sub-Saharan African, SSA,
population. Very poor socioeconomic conditions and rare and advanced pathologies are the …

Historically, hundreds of thousands of children worldwide with surgical conditions would go
untreated due to a lack of access to appropriate care. In particular, the burden of paediatric …

BackgroundInfectious diseases have always been the lime light of global health with very
little focus on childhood surgical conditions despite the fact that children constitute about half …

BACKGROUND: The practice of pediatric surgery in Africa presents multiple challenges.
This report presents an overview of problems encountered in the training of pediatric …

Dear Sir, It was interesting to read the timely article by Bickler et al.[1] on pediatric surgery in
sub-Saharan Africa. Their effort in trying to bring to the fore the problems of pediatric surgery …

BACKGROUND: Pediatric surgery is a well-established specialty in many developed
countries, but little is known about the status of the specialty in most developing countries …

This review explores the significant advancements in paediatric surgery in Africa during the
twenty-first century, with a particular focus on capacity-building, education, infrastructural …