[allAfrica] Nairobi -- In the west of Kenya, near the shores of Lake Victoria, where I come from, a tuberculosis outbreak is no different from one that takes place anywhere else in the world. A few dozen people get sick, health workers attempt to locate and test everyone with a bad cough and other symptoms. A concerted effort is made to make sure that patients take their medications for the entire duration of treatment, at least six months, to help stem the creation of drug-resistant infections.

[allAfrica] Kigali, Rwanda -- Approximately five billion people in low-resource areas lack access to safe surgical services, risking catastrophic health expenses, with an estimated need for 143 million additional surgeries, particularly in resource-constrained countries that house two-thirds of the global population, according to an Operation Smile study titled Breaking the Glass Ceiling: A Multiregional Study of Mentorship and Leadership in All-Women Surgical Teams.