The meeting brings together a unique group of surgeons, economists and public health specialists from sub-Saharan African countries and international agencies with the capacity to set an agenda to improve the provision of surgical services and to begin to harness resources for a major international program.
- Bellagio Report 2007
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In an effort to understand and attempt to address the surgical burden of disease in resource poor settings, specifically in sub-Saharan Africa, leaders from around the region and international organizations, have come together. Inspired by the publication of the second edition of Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (DCP2), which suggested that surgical services can be provided cost-effectively in district hospitals in developing countries, the group convened in June 2007 at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Conference Center to discuss this pressing issue.
Following the first meeting, the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group has expanded its efforts and has collaborated across countries to contribute to the reduction in the gaps in knowledge and to the improvement in access to quality surgical services. With support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the group will meet again in Kampala, Uganda, in July 2008 to broaden their international efforts to bring essential surgery to national and international health agendas and develop research and programmatic strategies for addressing the surgical burden of disease in sub-Saharan Africa.
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