RESOURCES

Below are a variety of fantastic educational resources in which you may learn more about the issue of obstetric fistula. Please take a moment and watch or read these.

VIDEOS:

Birthright Series: Fistula Hospital Healing and Hope

Birthright Series: Fistula Hospital Reaching Out

Birthright Series: Fistula Hospital Facing the Future

Suffering in Silence Obstetric Fistula in Asia

ARTICLES:

The Obstetric Vagina Fistula in the Developing World, L.L.Wall

Obstetric Fistula in the Developing World: An Introduction, L.L.Wall

Obstructed Labor Injury Complex, Arrowsmith S, Hamlin EC, Wall L.L.

Obstetric Fistula Living With Incontinence and Shame, L. Senere, MD and Nawal M Nour, MD,MPH

Obstetric Fistula Is a “Neglected Tropical Disease”, L.L.Wall

A bill of rights for patients with obstetric fistula, L.L.Wall

Obstetric vesicovaginal fistula as an international public-health problem, L.L.Wall

A qualitative study of the experience of obstetric fistula survivors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Yenenesh Tadesse Gebresilas

Psychological Symptoms Among Obstetric Fistula Patients Compared to Gynecology Outpatients in Tanzania, Sarah M. Wilson,a,b Kathleen J. Sikkema,a,b Melissa H. Watt,b and  Gileard G. Masengac

Success in Niger, Anders Seim, MD

RELATED WEBSITES:

Dignity Period

Health Development International

Healing Hands of Joy

Operation Fistula

Hamlin Fistula Hospital

Worldwide Fistula Fund

Mercy Ships