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Belinda Karimi, wearing a surgical mask and a hot pink head covering, performs surgery with a colleague.

Theatre Nurses: The Unsung Heroes in Surgical Safety

Yanomami Indigenous people rest in traditional blue and white hammocks used in lieu of hospital beds.

Bridging the Surgical Gap for Rural Indigenous Communities

Fantanesh Gedefe, in Ethiopia’s Amhara Region, washes her face from water stored in the “leaky tin.” Facial cleanliness is an integral component of the SAFE strategy for trachoma elimination. Brent Stirton/Getty Images Courtesy of the International Trachoma Initiative.

Dramatic Reduction in Blindness is Good News—Let’s Finish the Job

Surgeons operate in a hospital in Sotouboua, Togo. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

To Prepare for Pandemics, Invest in Surgical Care

A Syrian doctor checks on a child after a surgery at a hospital in Syria's Idlib province, September 10, 2018. Image: Aaref WATAD/AFP/Getty

Saving the Future Through the Art of the Knife

A nurse pours water from a pitcher to help the surgeon scrub for a cesarean section at St. Therese Hospital in Central Plateau, Haiti. © 2014 C. Hanna-Truscott/Midwives for Haiti, Courtesy of Photoshare

Safe Surgery—and UHC—Hinge on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

In the operating theater at Sotouboua hospital in Togo, Africa. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty

Cutting Through the Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage

Winners of the Untold Global Health Stories of 2019 Announced!

Surgeons are at work during restorative surgery on a survivor of female genital mutilation in Nairobi, Kenya on May 11, 2017.

Gender Equity Key to Providing Patients with Best Possible Surgical Care

Hamda Mohamed Omar (left), a nurse anesthetist/trainer from Edna Adan hospital in Hargeisa, at work with a visiting surgeon.

After Years of War, the Fight for Health

Anita Neupane following surgery on a contracture that goes from her right shoulder to her waist, which prevents her from lifting her arm.

Fighting Fire with Prevention

Dr. Shankar Man Rai taking a skin graft in a Nepal operating room.

Reconstructing Hope: A Surgeon's Mission to Help Nepal's Burn Patients