Obstetric Fistula

Saving the Girl Child

Elischia Fludd | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Girls, Child Abuse, Violence Against Women, Obstetric Fistula, Breast-Ironing, Impact News

Every day, somewhere in the world, a girl child struggles to live. In a world that still prefers the value of a male over a female, the girl child is already a miracle if she exists long enough to be born.

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Enabling Anyone, Anywhere to Help Mothers Globally With Samahope

Leila Chirayath Janah | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Women's Health Child Birth, Sierra Leone Women, West Africa Fistula Foundation, Samasource, Crowdsourcing, Women's Health, Global Motherhood, Samahope, Sierra Leone, Obstetric Fistula, Childbirth, Impact News

This Mother's Day, we are offering cards on our site to fund surgeries for women in need. In honor of mothers all over the world who work hard to take care of their families each day, Samahope enables anyone to give the gift of saving a woman's life.

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Women Hold Up Half The Sky

Kate Grant | Posted 04.15.2012

Read More: Sheryl WuDunn, Fistula, Half the Sky Movement, Half the Sky, Edna Adan, Fistula Foundation, Molly Melching, Nicholas Kristof, Global Motherhood, Obstetric Fistula, Skirball Center, Maternal Mortality, Arts News

The exhibit challenges you to open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart, and most of all to act to improve the lot of the world's women. The enemy is not men. The enemy is indifference and its evil twin inaction.

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Mother Courage: A New Lease on Life Following Fistula Surgery

David Lindsay | Posted 03.17.2012

Read More: Global Health Frontline News, Fistula, Obstetric Fistula, David Lindsay, Ghfn, Global Motherhood, Ccbrt, Video, World News

There is nothing more devastating for a mother than the loss of her child. In a cruel irony, the last 10 years in the life of the optimistically-named Happiness Josephat Miyawa have been truly miserable.

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SOBCon NW: Connecting Those Who Will Make a Difference

John Bergquist | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Terry-Starbucker, Direct Relief International, Social Entrepreneurship, Sobcon, Liz-Strauss, invisiblepeople.tv, Portland Oregon, Obstetric Fistula, Global Hope Network, Impact News

If our motives are pure and our minds clear, we can find others who are just as passionate about a need in the world. SOBCon is proof that entrepreneurs and employees alike can be both profitable and purposeful.

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Back to Bangladesh - Day 3

Christy Turlington Burns | Posted 08.23.2011

Read More: Christy Turlington No Woman No Cry, Fistula, Nike Foundation, Obstetric Fistula, Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh, Maternal Mortality, Christy Turlington, Impact News

It is important to keep in mind that globally, for every single maternal death, there are at least 20 morbidities.

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Giving Back on Mother's Day

Rita O’Connor | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Fistula Obstetric, Obstetric Fistula Epidemic, Mother's Day, Health, Obstetric Fistula, Obstetric Fistula Problem, Home News

Why should a childbirth injury that was eradicated a century ago in the northern hemisphere continue to afflict mothers today? A mother is a being of priceless value, no matter where she is.

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Fistula: A Horrifying Condition Affecting Women Worldwide

The Huffington Post | Catherine Pearson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's, Fistula and Women's Rights, Fistula, What Is Obstetric Fistula, International Woman's Day, Female Fistulas, International Women's Day, Obstetric Fistula, International Women Day, Home News

Today, on International Women's Day, another woman will join the some 2 million others suffering from obstetric fistula. She will labor, perhaps a...

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Weekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Delivery, RH Reality Check, Reform, Alternet, Insurance, Affordable Care Act, Cancer, In These Times, Roger Vinson, Medicine, Health Care, Abortion, Human Rights, Women, Florida, Twitter, Rape, Interstate Commerce, #DearJohn, Medicaid, Maternal Health, Terry J. Allen, Amanda Marcotte, Mandate, Tapped, Labor, Profit, Prostate, Health, Urology, Medicare, Sudan, Obstetric Fistula, Scott Lemieux, Kenya, Home News

by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimat...

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A Tragedy That Doesn't Have to Happen

Agnes Odhiambo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maternal Death, Canada G8, Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Toronto G8, Africa, Maternal Mortality Rate, Maternal Health, Obstetric Fistula, Maternal Mortality, World News

If the G-8 countries embrace as a priority providing access to comprehensive reproductive health services and strengthening health system accountability, they could save the lives of millions of women and children.

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, ?Global Gag Rule?, Women?S Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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A Healthy World Starts With Healthy Mothers

Sharon D’Agostino | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Child Development, U.N. Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Johnson and Johnson, Unfpa, Millennium Development Goals, Health Education, United Nations, Mothers2mothers, Global Motherhood, Obstetric Fistula, Maternal Health, Bblog-Globalmotherhood, Infant Mortality, Impact News

The launch of the Global Motherhood partnership between Johnson & Johnson and The Huffington Post offers the opportunity to give voice to the power of mothers as champions for the health and survival of their children, their families and, by extension, their communities.

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