While it is not our primary focus, we recognize that advocacy is an important tool to promote access to safe, timely, and affordable surgeries for the patients we aim to serve. This past spring, we met with other global surgery experts to push for more investment in surgical services.

Solidarity Bridge Board member, Cynthia Judge, suggests that the most important part of communication is the opportunity to elevate the human experience. Storytelling is a skill that must be developed, with precision and practice. With the neglected surgical patient as our inspiration, we can tell their stories with the conviction that they will be heard, and all our lives will be changed.

Latin American voices have been systematically marginalized in global health discussions. To begin to dismantle some of the structural barriers upholding this marginalization, we helped found the G4 Alliance Working Group on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC WG).

Investing in surgical capacity throughout the world is actually one of the “best buys” to prepare for pandemics like the one that has currently spread across our planet.

Solidarity Bridge presents parntership model to peers at the G4 Alliance meeting in Manila, Philippines.

In this blog, Dr. Moser shares his experience from Geneva, advocating for a global health focus on surgical care.  He represented Solidarity Bridge in the G4 Alliance and attended the opening session of the World Health Assembly. 

Through our work to resource Bolivian surgeons and their affiliate hospitals, we have witnessed the many ways quality surgical care can positively impact the health of patients, and the well-being of their families and entire communities. Yet still, “in low- and middle-income countries, 9 out of 10 people cannot access even the most basic surgical services.”

Summarizing his experiences after more than 20 mission trips, Dr. Richard Moser shares a new development at Solidarity Bridge that connects our on the ground work in Bolivia to a global movement for safer surgery.