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#BeyondBorders2016
Lifebox is thrilled to partner with the Medsin Global Surgery National Working Group (NWG) and the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) Students Section to host, ‘Beyond Borders: The Future of Global Surgery!’…
We’re going to WACS!
Global surgery, like it says on the box, is a global field – but too often it starts to look like a high-resource setting framework for a low-resource setting problem. This denies how much there is to…
Lifebox Turns Five!
This year Lifebox officially turns five! And we’re so excited to celebrate this landmark milestone with our friends around the world. Born in answer to the growing global health crisis of unsafe surgery, Lifebox was founded…
Grabbing an opportunity to say thanks
Happy new year! We got a lot of beautiful cards and messages of season’s greetings from around the world as 2016 approached – but two of our favourite notes arrived from Uganda, just before the festive season. Thanks to…
A better oximeter for under-5s
But we know there’s more work to be done, in surgery – and other fields where a pulse oximeter can make the difference between life and death. Thanks to support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, we…
#GawandeBdayGoal
If you know what we’re talking about, then you’re already a fan of our founder and chair Atul Gawande. And if you don’t, you should definitely click the links above! As a New York Times bestseller and…
Universal Health Coverage Day
Saturday 12 December is Universal Health Coverage Day (UHC), a rallying call to action to ensure global access to affordable and quality health care services for all when needed. Health for all? We say: yes! So do…
Lifebox in Nepal
(c) Leprosy Mission We met volunteer nurse Erin Horn through friends at Mercy Ships. The name Anandaban, she told us, literally means ‘forest of joy,’ and the hospital is ‘a sanctuary for those affected by…
#SaferSurgeryZambia
All roads lead to Zambia this week, as we co-host the 4th Lifebox and SAFE Obstetric Anaesthesia course in Ndola, the third-largest city. We are so proud to be collaborating with our co-founders the Association of Anaesthetists of…
Hawassa Here We Come!
This spring we announced our second technical stream of work, in collaboration with the GE Foundation and local partners: reduction of surgical site infection. Led by Lifebox trustee and global surgery expert Tom Weiser, this…
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