A film · A movement · A plan

Five billion people
are waiting to heal.

For ten years we have filmed the people the world's health systems forgot — and built the plan to bring them back.

A documentary project by Jaymie Ang Henry, MD MPH · Filmed in Tanzania · Kenya · the Philippines

Every two seconds, someone dies of a condition surgery could have fixed.

5B
People without access
No safe, affordable, timely surgical care.
17M
Deaths each year
From conditions amenable to surgical care.
77M
DALYs avertable
Healthy life-years recoverable, annually.
$25
A cataract surgery
Sight restored in a 20-minute operation.
The story so far

One film became a movement. The movement became a plan.

The initiative · Neglected Surgical Diseases™

Six conditions. One short operation each. All of them solvable.

Neglected Surgical Diseases™ impose profound isolation, stigma, and economic loss — yet every one of them has a proven, low-cost surgical cure available today.

01
Cleft lip & palate
$250 · per repair
02
Clubfoot
$350 · per course
03
Cataract
$25 · per eye
04
Hernia
$100 · per surgery
05
Obstetric fistula
$300–400 · per repair
06
Neglected injuries
$150–300 · per case