obstetric-fistula

• Meeting Women’s Reproductive Health Needs in a Remote Corner of Mali

  It takes two days to drive from Mali ’s capital, Bamako, to the Gao Region in the north. Encompassing 66,000 square miles, Gao is larger than Greece, Tunisia, or the state of Florida. The one regional hospital serves a population of more than half a million people, including 269 nomadic...

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• Newest Ethiopian Pre-Repair Obstetric Fistula Center Reaching Many with Care and Information

  Since its opening late last year, the new obstetric fistula pre-repair center in Sekota, Ethiopia , has: Screened 44 women for obstetric fistula and admitted 22 of them for pre-repair care Trained over 100 health workers, including health extension workers, nurses, midwives,...

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• Health Professionals Recommend Ways to Better Prevent, Treat, and Manage Obstetric Fistula

  Last month, at the 3 rd International Conference for the Society of Obstetric Fistula Surgeons in Dakar, Senegal, 300 participants from more than 30 countries outlined some concrete ways to prevent and treat obstetric fistula and assist women who have a fistula regain their health and...

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• IntraHealth Helps Improve Care Provided to Women with Obstetric Fistula in Mali

  Obstetric fistula affects nearly two million women globally. In West Africa, women develop this condition following three to four percent of births. Although the condition is most often treatable and curable, many women go without treatment and instead are stigmatized because obstetric fistula...

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• Fighting Fistula in Mali

  Adiza Mohamadou, a resident of northern Mali, recently underwent surgical repair of her obstetric fistula through the first fistula campaign supported by Fistula Care in collaboration with Medecins sans Frontiers which took place in March 2009 in Gao. “I have lived with obstetric...

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• IntraHealth concoure à une avancée significative dans Le traitement de la fistule obstétricale

  Epaulé par IntraHealth et d’autres programmes de l’USAID relatifs à la prévention de la fistule obstétricale, le projet Fistula Care est parvenu à changer la vie de 10 000 femmes  à travers 12 pays en leur permettant...

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• IntraHealth Contributes To A Milestone In Fistula Treatment

  The IntraHealth-supported Fistula Care Project and other USAID fistula programs have now reached 10,000 women in 12 countries with life-altering treatment for obstetric fistula. Obstetric fistula is an injury caused by prolonged labor: blood vessels in the mother’s birth canal are...

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• IntraHealth Expands Its Work In Mali

  High poverty rates have put health care out of reach for many Malians. Outside the capital city, Bamako, medical care can be difficult to access, as 25% of the population lives more than 15 kilometers from a community health center. Those who can reach health care establishments often find...

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• IntraHealth At APHA 2008

  IntraHealth is making several presentations at the American Public Health Association’s 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, California, October 25–29. Please visit us at exhibition booth 1336. On October 27, 12:30 pm, Karine Gabrielyan will give the oral...

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• Voices from the Field: Repairing Obstetric Fistula And Mending Lives

  Tiblet’s life changed in an instant. Married the year before and still just 19, Tiblet had imagined bringing her first child home after she gave birth; instead she delivered a dead fetus at the health center, after laboring for three days at home in Ethiopia’s Adet Woreda. Two...

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