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Two Seattle Volunteers Making a Difference in the Fight Against Fistula
In January 2004, millions of Americans tuned in to the Oprah Winfrey Show and learned of a little-known childbearing injury called obstetric fistula.
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El Salvador: Preventing Children from Having Children
SOYAPANGO, El Salvador — "I don’t want to spoil my future by repeating the mistakes my mother made", says 16-year-old Karla.
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Laotian Youth Teach Peers to Protect Their Reproductive Health
PHONTONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A visiting health education team has set up a stage and loudspeakers, and the whole village has come to watch.
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UNFPA, OPEC Fund, Governments Confront New Urgency of HIV Infections in Central America and the Caribbean
SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—United Nations officials, youth representatives and policymakers in Central America and the Caribbean are meeting in San Pedro Sula, Honduras to find new methods to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS…
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Experts in Africa Meet to Develop Training Guidelines for Fistula Treatment
NIAMEY, Niger —Improved training for medical workers providing fistula treatment would help end the needless suffering of thousands of African women with obstetric fistula, experts meeting in Niger agreed on Friday.
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Mobile Reproductive Health Clinics Make Motherhood Safer in Remote Lao Villages
SONG KLONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A medical officer from a travelling health team sits at a table outside a hut in this remote village and examines Ny Sirimatham and her infant son.
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Indonesian NGO Works to Stop Violence against Women by Providing Shelter, Raising Awareness and Taking Perpetrators to Court
JAKARTA—Visiting a small town in Tasikmalaya, Central Java, former first lady Shinta Nuriyah appeared before a crowd of local women.
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Doctors United in Their Desire to Help Women
KANO, Nigeria—Dr. Said Ahmad Mohammad and Dr. Bill Meyer had never set eyes on each other until a little over a week ago.
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Fortnight Prepares More Nigerian Doctors to Fight Fistula
BIRNIN KEBBI Nigeria—Dr. Mustafa Lawal checks on his patient, 20-year-old Rahamu Manu, in the recovery ward of the Birnin Kebbi Vesico-Vaginal Fistula Centre in northern Nigeria.
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