“Can I ask your advice doctor?” The recovery nurse who I had been teaching looked puzzled. “I have been asked by some of my colleagues on the wards how to […]
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Lifebox Q and A: Rwanda—unmet surgical need and a surgical safety crisis.
Just 3.5% of the 234 million major operations taking place each year are in low-resource settings, often carried out in very dangerous conditions due to lack of resources and training. […]
Sophie Reshamwalla: Lifebox—is that the pulse oximeter charity?
Whenever I tell people I work for Lifebox, they often say, “Oh, is that the pulse oximeter charity?” I’ve heard this so many times now that it is easy to […]
Abhay Bang on saving children’s lives
In 1945 my father had just been released from prison after taking part in India’s freedom movement and wanted to travel to the US to study economics. One week before he […]
Barbara Bale: reaching sick children in remote rural areas in China
We are here in a remote mountainous village in Yunnan to understand more about what happens when a baby or young child gets sick. We already know too many die […]
Alice Fay: Living with HIV in the Democratic Republic of Congo
I was in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) recently and met a young man, Jean Claude (not his real name), aged 17, who is living with HIV. We are […]
Simon Wright: How do we make health systems sexy?
Through all the changing fashions in donor attention, Save the Children has always pointed out that building a functioning health system must be the basis of development work. Then it does not matter […]
Sarah Jacobs on cholera in Haiti
I’ve never thought that much about water. I’m vaguely aware I should drink more of it. But that’s about it. Like most people who have the luxury, I take it […]