EDITORIAL article
Front. Med.
Sec. Intensive Care Medicine and Anesthesiology
This article is part of the Research TopicGlobal Perioperative Care in AfricaView all 10 articles
Editorial: Global Perioperative Care in Africa Framing the Future of Equitable Surgical and Critical Care Systems
Provisionally accepted
- 1Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States
- 2University of Oxford Nuffield Department of Women's & Reproductive Health, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 3University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria
- 42. Institute of Global Perioperative Care, Harve De Grace MD 210278, Harve De Grace MD 21078, United States
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Perioperative care and critical care medicine are fundamental to providing universal health 1 coverage, yet they remain among the least equitably distributed services worldwide. Today, an 2 estimated 5 billion people lack access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care, 3 underscoring the urgency of system-wide solutions. 1 The Frontiers in Medicine Research Topic 4Global Perioperative Care in Africa brings together a multidisciplinary body of evidence that 5 underscores both the complexity and the promise of advancing surgical, anesthesia, and critical 6 care capacity across low-and middle-income countries. These studies reflect a shared goal: using 7 clinical innovation and research to strengthen health systems and create equity in Africa. 8 The Research Topic opens with work that exemplifies the adaptive ingenuity of clinicians and 10 engineers who must respond to resource constraints.
Keywords: Africa, Critical Care, equitable, Perioperative, Surgery
Received: 29 Nov 2025; Accepted: 03 Dec 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Ariyo, Sampson, Cruz, Ekwere and Jackson MD, MBA. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Promise Ariyo
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