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Experts in Africa Meet to Develop Training Guidelines for Fistula Treatment

NIAMEY, Niger —Improved training for medical workers providing fistula treatment would help end the needless suffering of thousands of African women with obstetric fistula, experts meeting in Niger agreed on Friday.

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Mobile Reproductive Health Clinics Make Motherhood Safer in Remote Lao Villages

SONG KLONG, Saravan Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic—A medical officer from a travelling health team sits at a table outside a hut in this remote village and examines Ny Sirimatham and her infant son.

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Indonesian NGO Works to Stop Violence against Women by Providing Shelter, Raising Awareness and Taking Perpetrators to Court

JAKARTA—Visiting a small town in Tasikmalaya, Central Java, former first lady Shinta Nuriyah appeared before a crowd of local women.

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Doctors United in Their Desire to Help Women

KANO, Nigeria—Dr. Said Ahmad Mohammad and Dr. Bill Meyer had never set eyes on each other until a little over a week ago.

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Extending Help to Migrant Communities Hit by Tsunami

NAM KHEM, Phang-nga Province, Thailand—When the tsunami waters raged through this fishing town, home to thousands of migrant families from Myanmar, Nu Nu Aye raced to the office of World Vision, where she volunteered as…

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Fortnight Prepares More Nigerian Doctors to Fight Fistula

BIRNIN KEBBI Nigeria—Dr. Mustafa Lawal checks on his patient, 20-year-old Rahamu Manu, in the recovery ward of the Birnin Kebbi Vesico-Vaginal Fistula Centre in northern Nigeria.

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UK Doctor at "Home" in Nigerian Fortnight Effort

KATSINA, Nigeria—For Dr. Gloria Esegbona, participating in the “ Fistula Fortnight ” is like coming home.

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Fistula a Men's Issue, Too

KATSINA, Nigeria—About 30 men, seated on scattered plastic bags and straw mats, gather under the meager shade of a nim tree on the grounds of the Babbar Ruga Fistula Hospital.

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Healing Wounds, Restoring Hope in Nigeria

KANO, Nigeria— Fatima was 14-years-old when she married. Soon after, she fell pregnant.

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