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Financial Toxicity Among Patients With Breast Cancer Worldwide: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
A systematic review and meta-analysis found that financial toxicity affects patients with breast cancer worldwide, with much higher rates in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries.
JAMA Network Open · February 2023
Global Neurosurgery: Progress and Resolutions at the 75th World Health Assembly
Reviews progress in global neurosurgery advocacy around the 75th World Health Assembly in 2022, including work towards a resolution on folic acid fortification to prevent spina bifida.
Neurosurgery · February 2023
GSF Bi-annual Report 2021–22
Covers GSF's team, highlighted activities, organisational growth and expanding partnerships in 2021 and 2022.
Global Surgery Foundation · October 2022
Overcoming Barriers to Accessing Surgery and Rehabilitation in Low and Middle-Income Countries: An Innovative Model of Patient Navigation in Nepal
Describes a patient navigation project in Nepal that helped children from remote areas reach hospitals in Kathmandu for cardiac surgery and rehabilitation by arranging referrals, travel and lodging and counselling families.
World Journal of Surgery · April 2021
GSF Annual Report 2020
GSF's first annual report, covering its launch in January 2020, how activities adapted to COVID-19 and the outlook for 2021.
Global Surgery Foundation · December 2020