Background In East, Central and Southern Africa accurate data on the current surgeon
workforce have previously been limited. In order to ensure that the workforce required for …

Background The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery established the Three Delays
framework, categorising delays in accessing timely surgical care into delays in seeking care (First …

Community transmission of COVID-19 is already being reported in Africa. 1 Most countries on
the continent will have þ10, 000 confirmed cases within the month. 2 The population, while …

The first Lancet Oncology Commission on Global Cancer Surgery was published in 2015 and
serves as a landmark paper in the field of cancer surgery. The Commission highlighted the …

After decades on the margins of primary health care, surgical and anaesthesia care is
gaining increasing priority within the global development arena. The 2015 publications of the …

While there has been overall progress in addressing the lack of access to surgical care
worldwide, untreated surgical conditions in developing countries remain an underprioritized issue…

Importance Surgical conditions are an important component of global disease burden, due
in part to critical shortages of adequately trained surgical providers in low- and middle-…

Background Lack of access to emergency and essential surgery is widespread in low‐ and
middle‐income countries. Scarce anesthesia services contribute to this unmet need. The aim …

Background Injuries and surgical diseases are leading causes of global mortality. We sought
to identify successful strategies to augment surgical capacity and research endeavors in …

On behalf of the supporting organisations and all participants of the international symposium
‘Surgery in Low Resource Settings’, November 2014, in Amsterdam, we present the ‘…