Thanks to the participation of over 200 burn centers and many authors and contributors, we were able to publish GAP`s first scientific article State of burns management in Africa: Challenges and solutions
You can find the abstract here https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burns.2022.12.016 .
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Current Projects
We just closed our third survey, this time focusing on burn care in India. Evaluation of the data has already started and we will publish our findings as soon as they are ready. Thank you to everyone who participated in filling out the survey!
Who are we?
Global Aid in Pediatric-Burns is an organization founded in 2020 with the goal to enable collaborative research and ultimately improve burn care in resource constraint areas.
What is our purpose?
Our long-term purpose is to explore collaboratively the current status of pediatric burn care on the African continent in various settings and also investigate socioeconomic & cultural factors influencing burn injuries and their treatment.
Why do we care about burns?
Burns remain a global public health problem, despite efforts in prevention and treatment. Around 180.000 deaths are cause every year by burns. Of these, the large majority occurs in middle and low income countries.
Thanks to advances in critical care and surgical management, mortality has decreased in burns the last decades in many regions of the world. Yet even non-fatal deep dermal or full thickness burns often have long term consequences: They are the leading cause of morbidity, including disfigurement and disability, often with resulting stigma and rejection. We believe, that in many cases both morbidity and mortality could be reduced significantly with more means and higher standards of formation.
Why do we focus on children?
Burns occur mainly in the home, at school or at workplaces. Along with women, the paediatric population is especially vulnerable to burns: In childhood, burns are the fifth most common cause of non-fatal injury. Burns in children tend to result from their infinite curiosity, lack of experience, poor awareness of danger, and in many cases a lack of supervision. However, not negligible number of pediatric burn injuries from child maltreatment.
What we are doing at the moment?
At the moment we are conducting a survey which will provide a basis for a subsequent interventional study promoting mutual teaching and providing burn centers in low resource settings with the necessary means to perform high quality burn care.