CURE International and The Global Surgery Foundation Announce Joint Partnership

26 January 2022, Geneva, Switzerland - The Global Surgery Foundation (GSF) and CURE International are pleased to announce a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) that will seek to improve access to surgical care and local surgical capacity around the world. 

CURE International is a US-based non-profit Christian organization that provides life-changing surgical care for children suffering from treatable conditions such as cleft lip/palate, untreated clubfoot, bowed legs, burn contractures, spina bifida, brain tumors, and hydrocephalus. In addition to providing world-class clinical services, CURE ministers to the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their communities through their network of pediatric surgical hospitals. Since its inception in 1996, CURE has completed more than 5 million patient visits and 300,000 life-changing surgical procedures.

The GSF is a Switzerland-based organization anchored in the United Nations. Its mission is to to accelerate and expand the provision of surgical care for attaining better health for all. The GSF facilitates collaboration with countries, UN agencies, and other international organizations, as well as civil society. Its goal is to increase surgical capacity in countries which need the assistance most. Lack of access to basic surgical care is the primary cause of 30% of the global burden of disease, leading to 17 million preventable deaths globally each year (6 times greater than the death toll of HIV, Malaria, and TB combined). Therefore, the vision of the GSF is a world with universal and equitable access to safe, quality, timely, and affordable surgical, obstetric, and anesthesia care.

Through this MoU, the GSF and CURE International have committed to work collaboratively to further the global surgery agenda, specifically in developing innovative training, capacity-building, and service delivery programs. The collaboration will also include national surgical planning and a focus on sustainable development in global surgery and will extend to other joint projects of mutual interest, including fundraising, research, and organizing international conferences and symposia to raise the profile of global surgery.

Learn more about CURE International here.

Learn more about The Global Surgery Foundation here.