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UN calls for intensified efforts to end fistula
- 23 December 2014
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Good Practices on Ending the Health and Human Rights Tragedy of Obstetric Fistula
Resource date: 2013
Author: UNFPA
Publisher: UNFPA
Obstetric fistula is a severe morbidity caused when a woman or girl suffers from prolonged obstructed labour without timely access to emergency obstetric care, notably a Caesarean section. The sustained pressure of the baby’s head on the mother’s pelvic bone damages her soft tissues, creating a hole – or fistula – between the vagina and the bladder and/or rectum. In most cases, the baby is stillborn or dies soon after birth, and the woman suffers a devastating injury – a fistula - that renders her incontinent.
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Report of the Africa Regional Fistula Meeting
Resource date: 2004
Author: UNFPA
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Report on the Meeting for the Prevention & Treatment of Obstetric Fistula
Resource date: 2001
Author: UNFPA, Columbia University, FIGO
Publisher: UNFPA
This report reviews the first meeting of international fistula experts in London in July 2001, which launched this initiative and focused on concrete actions to alleviate the suffering of affected women. It is our sincerest hope that together we can work to make fistula as rare in Africa and in all developing countries as it is in the industrialized world. We know that new partners will join us in this worthwhile initiative.
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Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health
Resource date: 2007
Author: UNFPA. Family Care International
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Neglected no more - Fact sheet
Resource date: May 2014
Author: UNFPA
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Back to life: Promoting the reintegration of fistula survivors in Liberia
Published on: 11/05/2013
Several initiatives in Liberia aim to empower fistula survivors.
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End the Shame. End the Isolation. End Fistula.
Published on: 20/05/2013
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From Despair to Dignity: One woman's struggle with Fistula
Published on: 20/05/2013
Countries around the world will mark the inaugural International Day to End Obstetric Fistula on 23 May 2013 in an effort to raise support and awareness of a devastating injury that can occur during childbirth. This is the story of 16-year-old Essitia Mulhanga and her road to recovery.
Visit: http://www.endfistula.org/
Produced by Guy Hubbard for UNPFA/UNTV
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Delivering Hope - Campaign to End Fistula
Published on: 24/04/2007
This new 5-minute film - available to NGOs and community groups - features Nigerian fistula surgeon Dr. Zubairu Iliyasu and Natalie Imbruglia, a spokesperson for the Global Campaign to End Fistula.
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