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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.
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Surgeons operate in a hospital in Sotouboua, Togo. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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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
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Saving the Future Through the Art of the Knife

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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
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In the operating theater at Sotouboua hospital in Togo, Africa. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty
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On March 19th, 2019 the first operating room for surgical management of Tuberculosis was inaugurated at Hipolito Unanue Hospital (Lima, Peru).
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Surgeons are at work during restorative surgery on a survivor of female genital mutilation in Nairobi, Kenya on May 11, 2017.
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Gender Equity Key to Providing Patients with Best Possible Surgical Care

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Operating tools are seen as pediatric heart surgeon Issam al-Rassi performs a heart operation on 9-month-old Syrian refugee Amena al-Helou at the Hammoud Universal Hospital in Sidon, Lebanon, Sept. 2016.
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Do We Have a Right to Surgery? The Case for Access to All

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