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Millions of people—most of them children—die each year in developing countries from diseases that are preventable and treatable. Moreover, tragically little research is done to prevent or cure some of the world’s biggest killers, such as malaria and tuberculosis.

The foundation is guided by the belief that all lives, no matter where they are lived, have equal value. The mission of our Global Health Program is to encourage the development of lifesaving medical advances and to help ensure they reach the people who are disproportionately affected. We focus our funding in two main areas:

• Access to existing vaccines, drugs, and other tools to fight diseases common in developing countries
• Research to develop health solutions that are effective, affordable, and practical

Anesthesia controls pain during surgery or other medical procedures. It includes using medicines, and sometimes close monitoring, to keep you comfortable. It can also help control breathing, blood pressure, blood flow, and heart rate and rhythm, when needed.

 Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason. An act of performing surgery may be called a surgical procedure, operation, or simply surgery.

• Clinical Procedures
• General Surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedic Surgery
• Otolaryngology and Facial Plastic Surgery
• Plastic Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery
• Transplantation
• Trauma
• Urology
• Vascular Surgery