Recent news stories about fistula include:

22 May 2008
UN Radio
Raising awareness of obstetric fistula is the mission for two Kenyan women

20 May 2008
Ms. Magazine
Maternal mortality and obstetric fistula addressed at press conference and hill briefing

20 May 2008
Baltimore Sun
Spice girl urges maternal health funding

20 May 2008
Medill Reports
Ginger spices up Capitol Hill

19 May 2008
The Root.com
What $300 can do

1 February 2008
Nyasa Times
The success story on fistula women at Nkhoma

21 December 2007
IRIN
NIGER: Botched birth survivors battle fistula

12 December 2007
Reuters
Imbruglia sees hope for women injured giving birth

11 December 2007
Sky News Eyewitness Blog
Eyewitness: Natalie Imbruglia in Nigeria

5 December 2007
Sky News Eyewitness Blog
Eyewitness: Natalie Imbruglia

5 December 2007
The Women's International Perspective
Obstetric Fistula: A medical nightmare for Malawian women

19 October 2007
BBC
They thought I was cursed

7 October 2007
New Sunday Express
Voice of hope

7 August 2007
Newsweek
How you can help save mothers' lives

26 July 2007
IRIN
Côte D'Ivoire: Growing number of women presenting with Obstetric Fistula

23 July 2007
The Christian Science Monitor
In Darfur, one husband sticks by his wife despite society's pressure

17 June 2007
Washington Times
Incontinence African scourge

May 2007
b.there!
Africa in her sights

23 April 2007
Toronto Star
African teens and pain of fistula

3 April 2007
Le Soir
Les ravages de la fistule

30 March 2007
Reuters
Beyond stillbirth, shame: Women with a fistula

27 March 2007
Le Journal du Médecin
Agir pour redonner l'espoir

20 February 2007
McClatchy Washington Bureau
Hospital in Ethiopia offers hope for devastating childbirth injury

17 January 2007
Inter Press Service
Obstetric fistula - grim reminder of unmet MDGs

October 2006
Pregnancy, Baby and You
Safe births for all

18 August 2006
BBC News
Nigeria's 'dead women walking'

21 July 2006
Real
Suffering In silence

18 July 2006
IRIN
Senegal: free treatment for obstetric fistula

11 July 2006
San Jose Mercury News
Area residents pitch in for Ethiopian women

21 May 2006
The Vancouver Province
An african mother's agony

5 May 2006
The Toronto Sun
Singer gives voice to ailment: UN push to end obstetric fistula

6 March 2006
Inter Press Service UN Journal, page 3-4
Shame and pain torment fistula sufferers

5 March 2006
Washington Times
Ethiopia's trail of tears

15 February 2006
Women's eNEWS
Filmmaker sharpens U.S. focus on fistula

January - March 2006
Vidura
Development and Shashi Tharoor's media priorities

20 January 2006
Baltimore Sun
Operations of compassion

October 2005
Australian Women's Weekly
Natalie Imbruglia: Pop star's brave fight to save outcast african mothers

29 September 2005
The New York Times
Nightmare for african women: Birthing injury and little help

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