Fistula Resource Guide

Organizations working to End Obstetric Fistula ■ UNFPA – Campaign to End Fistula

http://www.endfistula.org/

■ The Fistula Foundation http://www.fistulafoundation.org/

■ The Fistula Care Project

http://www.fistulacare.org/pages/index.php

■ The Worldwide Fistula Fund http://www.worldwidefistulafund.org/

■ The Women's Dignity Project – Tanzania http://www.womensdignity.org/ ■ The White Ribbon Alliance

http://www.whiteribbonalliance.org/

■ Hamlin Fistula International http://www.hamlinfistula.org/how-to-help/partner-trusts.html

DVD & Media: ■ A Walk to Beautiful

http://www.walktobeautiful.com/

■ From Despair to Dignity http://www.yaninamanolova.com/fistula/index.html

Articles of Note: ■ The Illiterate Surgeon

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/12/opinion/12kristof.html ■ After a Devastating Birth Injury, Hope.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24hospital.html ■ They Think they’ve Been Cursed by God

http://select.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/opinion/25kristof.html ■ New Life for the Pariahs

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01kristof.html

■ Safer Motherhood, Safer World http://www.guardian.co.uk/journalismcompetition/safer-motherhood-safer-world

■ Tanzania women's pains of Poverty. Daniel Dickinson http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3382957.stm

Papers, Booklets, Briefs: ■ Ruminjo, JK. “Obstetric Fistula and the Challenge to Maternal Health Care Systems”.

International Planned Parenthood Foundation. IPPF Medical Bullentin (40,4) December 2007, pp 3-4. http://www.ippf.org/NR/rdonlyres/ADCFBC7C-9D8C-4F80-A736-20A95D6A4A0E/0/41_04_dec07.pdf" to continue.

■ Jones DA. Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula & Inequities in Maternal Health. United Nations Population Fund, Family Care International. 2007 http://www.who.int/pmnch/topics/maternal/livingtestimony/en/ http://www.endfistula.org/download/living%20testimony_english.pdf

■ Barot I. Preempting the Need to Repair: Toward a Comprehensive US Policy on Obstetric Fistula. Guttmacher Policy Review. Summer 2010 (13,3) http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/gpr/13/3/gpr130318.pdf

■ Mobile Phones Help Manage Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania. EndFistula.org http://www.endfistula.org/news_features_mobile_tanzania_16jul10.html

■ Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula & Inequities in Maternal Health. Family Care International, United Nations Population Fund, 2007. http://www.unfpa.org/upload/lib_pub_file/746_filename_living_fistula_eng.pdf

Scholarly Articles: ■ Lewis G. Be Bernis L. Obstetric Fistula Guiding principles for clinical management and

programme development. WHO http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/documents/9241593679/en/ http://www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer/publications/obstetric_fistula.pdf

■ Bangse M, Mehta M, Singer J, Daly etc. Childbirth Experience of Women with Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania & Uganada and their Implications for Fistula Program Development. International Urogynecology Journal. July 2010 http://www.springerlink.com/content/611h27p8l4711062/fulltext.pdf

■ Muleta M, Hamlin EC, Fantahun M, Kennedy RC, Tafesse B. Health and social

problems encountered by treated and untreated obstetric fistula patients in rural

Ethiopia. J Obstet Gynaecol Can. 2008 Jan;30(1):44-50. http://www.sogc.org/jogc/abstracts/full/200801_WomensHealth_2.pdf

■ Wall LL, Arrowsmith SD. The "continence gap": a criical concept in obstetric fistula repair. International Urogynecology Journal (2007) 18:843-844. http://www.springerlink.com/content/c115gph18353r8j2/fulltext.pdf

■ Norman AM, Breen M. Richter H. Prevention of Obstetric Fistulae: some thoughts on a daunting task. . International Urogynecology Journal (2007) 18:485-491.

Abstracts ■ Stanton C, Holtz SA, Ahmed S. Challenges In Measuring Obstetric Fistula. International

Journal of Gynecology Obstetrics. November 2007(99, Supplement 1) S4-S9

■ Tsui AO, Creanga AA, Ahmed S. The role of delayed childbearing in the prevention of obstetric fistulas. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2007 Nov;99 Supplement