Find the stories, updates, and impact from Lifebox's global work making surgery and anesthesia safer.
In 2007, I embarked on a transformative journey as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia, assigned to monitor and evaluate HIV/AIDS services for a government office. Little did I know that this seemingly random assignment would blossom into a 17-year…
At Lifebox, we recognize that safer surgery saves lives—and that women are a vital part of this mission. Women play a significant role in surgical teams worldwide, whether as surgeons and anesthesiologists performing life-saving procedures, or nurses providing essential…
Clean cut in Honduras
You can cite the right statistics. You can read the New York Times over morning coffee. But stepping up to the operating room table while the sweat drips off your forehead? As colleagues in low-resource settings know,…
“In every aspect of life, the phrase ‘the more you learn, the more you realise how little you know’ seems to ring true – yet in the context of volunteering with Lifebox on my…
What about how countries compare in terms of population? Number of physicians? Maternal mortality? It’s not an even field. So as the world gears up for the 2014 World Cup, Lifebox is preparing to take you offside. We’ll be taking a…
The South African Society of Anaesthesiologists is hosting another concert for Lifebox! Join SASA members for an afternoon of music, soup and sherry, and join the campaign to make surgery safer in low-resource settings. Time and date:…
Their conference sets up shop in a different European city each year. In 2012 we put our best bisou forward making introductions in Paris… …last year we said hola to old acquaintances in Barcelona, and this year……
But what else could they do? It’s the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, when MSF concluded that “you can’t stop genocide with doctors.” The current situation in Central African Republic (…
Spot the Lifebox So we were predisposed to like Rotary, and that’s before you factor in the amazing work they’ve been helping us with over the last year! As we wrote in the April issue of Rotary Today (you can…
Essential monitoring and education changes practice and saves lives – and now there’s a study proving that the Lifebox model does just that.’Evaluation of a large-scale donation of Lifebox pulse oximeters to non-physician anaesthetists in Uganda‘ published…
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery is working to make the case for investing in surgery and anaesthesia as part of healthcare in lower and middle income countries (LMIC). The Commissioners would like to hear as…
You don’t have to be a healthcare professional to make a difference in global health. Sometimes you don’t even have to leave the computer. Lifebox sends thousands of pieces of equipment to hospitals across 90 countries worldwide, and works with…
