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Excerpt: Three-fourths of the world's population, approximately 4.5 billion people, live in areas that are significantly medically underserved and do not have ready access to cardiac surgery. The sentiment that geography should not be destiny, and medical professionals in developed countries have a moral obligation to improve access to care was codified in 2018 with the Cape Town Declaration on Access to Cardiac Surgery in the Developing World.