Project Updates

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December 1, 2009

• Quality Improvement Workshop held in Niger

November 17, 2009

•  Improved use of the partograph in Ethiopian health centers

November 3, 2009

• Nigerian Senate Committee on Health visits Fistula Care-supported sites

October 20, 2009

•  Advocacy training in Sierra Leone

October 6, 2009

• Fistula Care in the news

September 22, 2009

• Fistula Mentors in Ethiopia support patients and facilities throughout the repair process

September 8, 2009

• Three Fistula Care-supported sites in Nigeria are renovated

August 25, 2009

•  Guinea introduces Fistula Care's Data for Decision Making Module

August 11, 2009

• Recently released PBS video highlights Fistula Care's supported site in Sierra Leone

July 28, 2009

• Fistula Care opens an office in Rwanda

June 30, 2009

• Nigeria program expansion

June 16, 2009

• Three Nigerian states drama groups trained to address fistula prevention

June 2, 2009

• Guinea program expansion, click here for more information

May 19, 2009:

• Fistula Care supported services begin in Mali
• Fistula Care co-sponsors an international consortium to develop fistula classification system

 March 24, 2009:

• Religious leaders serve as maternal health champions in northern Nigeria
• Two Nigerian surgeons trained on board the Africa Mercy
• Social immersion facilitates reintegration and empowerment of fistula survivors in Guinea
• Social awareness campaigns in Bangladesh improve prevention and increase the use of fistula repair services

October 1, 2008:

• Inauguration of the Jean Paul II site in Guinea

June 25, 2008:

• Fistula Care enables four traumatic fistula experts to present at the 2008 Reproductive Health in Emergencies Conference in Kampala, Uganda

June 11, 2008:

• Fistula Care trains fistula counseling trainers from five Nigerian states in Sokoto
• Fistula Care launches the Digital Stories in Uganda

May 28, 2008:

• Fistula Care organizes an international meeting for fistula surgeons and program managers in Accra, Ghana