A neglected priority? The importance of surgery in tackling global health inequalities

"I was thinking that I was already dead... now I can talk with you people, I’m so happy! ” These words, spoken quietly but with great warmth by a young woman devastated by a vesicovaginal fistula and restored to dignity through compassionate operative treatment, cut cleanly through divides of...

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Main Authors: Ewan D. Kennedy, Cameron J. Fairfield, Stuart J. Fergusson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh University Global Health Society 2015-06-01
Series:Journal of Global Health
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Online Access:http://jogh.org/documents/issue201501/jogh-05-010304.XML