Press Clips Archive

Significant coverage in broadcast and print media have brought fistula to the attention of millions in the North. National campaigns, local news stories, radio shows, popular culture and word of mouth are bringing the subject to wider attention in the South as well.

Some of the major media coverage includes:

2005

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

26 September 2005
Toledo Blade
Fixing, Preventing Obstetric Fistula

11 September 2005
Reuters
Nigerian Women Hurt in Childbirth Slowly Find Hope

August 2005
Global Health Link
For UK Doctor, Nigerian Fistula Project a 'Perfect Match'

13 June 2005
The Wall Street Journal
The Promise: Married at 11, a Teen in Niger Returns to School

12 June 2005
The New York Times
The Illiterate Surgeon

4 May 2005
Inter Press Service
U.N. Highlights World's Underreported Stories

7 March 2005
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
In Africa, Doctors Treating an Unmentionable Injury

March 2005
équilibres & populations
Le défit de l'égalité reste à relever

4 February 2005
The Times Online (UK)
A Call from God Told Me to Go and Save Lives

2004

18 June 2004
BBC News UK Edition
Sierra Leone's Silent Sufferers

24 March 2004
Inter Press News Agency
Burkina Faso: Helping Girls to Keep Marriage Under Wraps

6 March 2004
Le Monde
Femmes du Sud: Le Scandale des Fistules

March 2004
Population Reference Bureau
Married as Children, Women with Obstetric Fistulas Have No Future

10 February 2004
Inter Press Service New Agency Health-Pakistan
Poverty, Poor Health Services Condemn Women to Disability

12 January 2004
BBC News
Tanzania Women's Pains of Poverty

3 January 2004
The Lancet
Obstetric Fistula: The International Response

2003

25 October 2003
Washington Post Foreign Service
A Brutal Legacy of Congo War

7 October 2003
Newsday
Lives Left Ruptured by Labor Neglect

Sept. - Oct. 2003
Global Health Link
Untreated Fistula: A Condition of Shame and Shunning

22 June 2003
The Toronto Star
Trying to Help Alleviate a Hidden Horror

19 June 2003
Inter Press Service News Agency
Pregnancy Illness Devastates 100,000 Women Yearly

18 June 2003
Voice of America
UN Population Fund Draws Attention to Obstetric Fistula in African Women