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Month in Focus December 2011

Video update on Médecins Sans Frontières activities in December 2011.

Nigeria: Fighting the fistula stigma

Journalist David Wroe and photographer Penny Bradfield visited the Médecins Sans Frontières emergency obstetric and fistula repair program in Jahun, northern Nigeria. Their story and photos were published in the Sydney Morning...

More on Women's Health

Maternal deaths are preventable

Find out how we prevent and treat complications during childbirth and pregnancy to help women survive.

International Women's Day 2012 Forum

Are you interested in maternal health as a student or as a professional?

To mark IWD in Sydney, on 8 March the University of Sydney and Médecins Sans Frontières Australia are co-hosting a 90-minute forum on addressing the...

Podcast: Preventing and treating obstetric fistulas in Nigeria

Nigeria / 08.03.11

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Obstetric fistulas, most often the result of prolonged obstructed labor, is an opening that occurs between the bladder and the vagina, or between the rectum and the vagina and causes a woman to become incontinent, among other devastating medical and social consequences. According to the UN, an estimated two million women live with fistulas today—nearly half of them in Nigeria.

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