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Najwa, 24 years old, Sudan
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About Obstetric Fistula

• Soft tissues of the pelvis
• are compressed between
• the descending babys
• head and the mothers
• pelvic bone.

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Living With Fistula

• Medical consequences incontinence, infection
• Stigma and shame keep women hidden away
• Social, physical and emotional decline

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Fistula Fast Facts

• More than 2 million women with obstetric fistula
• 50,000 to 100,000 new cases each year
• A preventable and treatable condition

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Fistula Milestones

• 1895 New York Fistula hospital closes
  its doors
• 1974 AAFH founded in Ethiopia
• 2001 First coordinated response
• 2002 UNFPA carries out first-ever
  needs assessments
• 2003 UNFPA launches Global Campaign

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The Global Campaign

• The Campaign to End Fistula is now working in
  30 countries to
• Prevent fistula from occurring
• Heal women who are affected
• Renew the hopes of those who suffer from the
  condition

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Preventing Harm

• Obstetric Care
• Family Planning
• Empowering Women
• The sun should not rise or set twice on a woman
  in labour.
• An African proverb.

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Healing Wounds

• Surgical Repair
• Training
• Fistula Centres
• Transportation
• When a woman arrives at a repair facility, it is
  as though she has reached Mecca. Her whole lifes
  savings, all of her hopes have been in getting
  cured and going home.
• Dr. Ann Ward, Family Life Centre, Nigeria

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Renewing Hope

• Ending the Silence
• Reclaiming Lives
• The Next Pregnancy
• When I am cured, it will be like I am a new
  woman.
• Zeinabou, a
  fistula patient at Niamey
  National Hospital, Niger

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How to Help

• Be Informed
• Share Your Knowledge
• Contribute
• For Campaign Information www.endfistula.org