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:

2008

12 November 2008
UNFPA website
Afghan Mullahs Promote Women's Health and Rights

30 October 2008
Media Global
Preventable conditions affect 75,000 women a year across the developing world

14 October 2008
ipsnews
Help for Women with Obstetric Fistula

14 October 2008
The National
UN bolsters drive to end peril of childbirth

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

2007

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

2006

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

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

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

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