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Global surgery - groin hernia, mosquito mesh and task sharing

This network is a fusion of several independent research groups and previous bilateral partnerships conducting research within the field of global hernia surgery. Within the collaboration we will conduct a prospective multi center implementation study on the training and introduction of groin hernia mesh repair under local anaesthesia in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Uganda and Tanzania. We will investigate the feasibility of task sharing to increase accessibility to surgical services for groin hernia in the involved sub-Saharan settings of this study. Patients (adult men with reducible, primary groin hernia) will be included at the respective study sites (n=228 per site). They will be operated under local anaesthesia using the anterior mesh repair with a low-cost synthetic mesh. They will be followed up after two weeks and after one year. The patients will be included into the study between 2016 and 2018 and follow up will be completed by 2019. Through the collaboration, we will pool knowledge and experience and we will increase operative capacity of the study team. It enables us to undertake large studies in several sites within a limited time frame. The results from this study will guide large scale implementation and introduction of the anterior mesh repair in the study countries and beyond. This is urgent as the unmet need for groin hernia surgey amounts to many millions of patients worldwide.

Project ID

SE-0-SE-29-2016-05663_2-285-12182

Activity status

2 - Implementation

Aid type

D02 - Other technical assistance

% to Uganda

100.00

Organisations

Funding

Sweden

Extending

The Swedish Research Council

Implementing

Karolinska Institutet

CRS code	%
Medical research (12182)	100.0