Support the African Perioperative Research Group (APORG).

"Deaths following surgery are the third largest contributor to deaths globally. In Africa, nearly a billion people do not have access to safe and affordable surgery. The recent collaborative African Surgical Outcomes Study (ASOS) highlighted the limited human resources available to provide surgical care, and the resultant ‘failure to rescue’ which was associated with a peri-operative mortality twice the global average. The distribution of surgeries in Africa differs from that of high-income countries, with one-third of all surgeries in Africa being caesarean sections, which is associated with a mortality rate 50 times higher than that reported in high-income countries. These startling peri-operative outcomes have forged a large, informal collaborative across Africa, known as the African Peri-operative Research Group (APORG). These clinician investigators have a desire to provide pragmatic solutions to improve peri-operative outcomes in Africa, despite difficult resource-limited environments."

Anaesthesia 2020, 75 (Suppl. 1), e28–e33. Biccard | African peri-operative research priorities.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anae.14934