#WHA69: from resolution to reality
In 1980, the WHO Director-General made that speech. In 2015, after decades of work, surgery and anaesthesia reached the World Health Assembly agenda for the first time – and got a resolution. Lifebox was…
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Smile Train and Lifebox – a legacy of safer surgery
NGOs work best when they work together – and we’ve been working with Smile Train for as long as we can remember. From our earliest days to our fifth birthday, we’ve teamed…
#LifeboxTurns5
We know exactly where the time goes. In the last five years we’ve made surgery and anaesthesia safer for 10 million people, across 100 countries worldwide. We’ve worked with extraordinary individuals and organisations, committed to safer care for their patients and…
Live from Burkina Faso!
We’re back in West Africa for #SaferSurgeryBurkinaFaso – and our trusty team is keeping us up to date on the latest! Tune in below as Dr Angela Enright reports from behind the scenes of our life-saving safe anaesthesia…
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…
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…
A week in the Life of Niger
This week we’re joining the Liya Kebede Foundation on Instagram, sharing our work in Niger and the impact that safer surgery has for mothers and babies worldwide. It’s been five months since our countrywide…
Happy Birthday to the WFSA!
All super teams have origin stories, and Lifebox is no different. If you read the history you’ll see that before we were us, we were many other things. Consulting on development of the WHO Surgical Safety…
#SaferSurgery Uganda
In an episode dedicated to safer surgery, we follow a story of dedication, innovation and improvement in Uganda. From an emergency Caesarean section in a referral hospital, to a pulse oximeter hand-delivered to a hospital in need, this is global…
Al Jazeera – behind the scenes
Al Jazeera’s much-feted medical series The Cure brings science, society and the general public together on one small screen. And independent filmmaker, Daniel Nikolaison is regularly responsible for crafting The Cure stories that are true (without…
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