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Fistula Care Plus partners with ministries of health, faith-based and nongovernmental organizations, and other international and national collaborators in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Recent News & Publications
- The Fistula Care Plus project ended on March 31, 2021. Click here to for all end of project resources.
- Watch the latest #FistulaCareOnline webinar on physiotherapy within fistula and maternal health programs, hosted with partners Panzi Hospital and Mama, LLC.
- Virtual Panel – Innovative Solutions to Reduce Barriers to Fistula Care
- New FC+ and Pop Council research published in mHealth Journal on the use of interactive voice response technology to address barriers to fistula care in Nigeria and Uganda.
- West African College of Surgeons and FC+ announce new partnership, and more news from Director Vandana Tripathi for the Wilson Center.
- FC+ Uganda shares its successes and lessons learned from five years of partnership for fistula prevention, care, and reintegration
- See the exciting panel and 15 presentations from FC+ at the 2018 FIGO World Congress
- Join Fistula Care Plus at the 5th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research in Liverpool!
- MHTF and FC+ discuss in News Deeply how fistula can be both treated AND caused by surgery, and what the global health community can do about it.
- Deputy Director Vandana Tripathi and Lindsay Mallick of the DHS Program publish new research on the dramatically increased risk of sexual and physical violence among women reporting fistula symptoms
- FC+ Bangladesh launches Campaign for Fistula Free Bangladesh targeting adolescent girls
- Nigerian government mandates free fistula surgery at all teaching hospitals!
- Poor funding, scant attention escalate Nigeria’s obstetric fistula burden
- New commentary in the Lancet by FC+, UNFPA, and Fistula Foundation: “Ending Fistula within a Generation: Making the dream a reality”
- Lauri Romanzi quoted in MHTF Blog “Obstetric Fistula: A Global Maternal Health Challenge [Part 1].”
- FC+ Program Associate Lauren Bellhouse featured on FP Voices, a project of K4Health and FP2020.
- FC+/Bangladesh Program Manager, Dr. SK Nazmul Huda, authors op-ed on “Hope, Healing, and Dignity for All” in the Daily Star.
- Press Release: Nigeria to mark International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
- FC+/Nigeria Country Program Manager Iyeme Efem, “Women with fistula should not be stigmatized or marginalized.”
- New resource from FC+ advances safe surgery for women affected by fistula.
- Final quantitative and qualitative reports from the FC+ communications study in Nigeria are now up on our Resources page!
- EngenderHealth and Medical Aid Films present a new film on the FC+ surgical safety toolkit.
- Nigeria launches guidelines on catheterization for prevention and management of obstetric fistula.
- Fistula clients in Abakaliki, Nigeria share their experience receiving FC+ sponsored repair with the Vanguard.
- News Deeply covers the “unsung struggle” of women with fistula in Bangladesh- and highlights EngenderHealth!
- What works/doesn’t work about the partograph, and in what circumstances? New Realist Review by Karen Levin and collaborators in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.
- New year, new blog! 2016 in review on the FC+ blog.
- Elly Arnoff shares updates on research to action interventions to reduce barriers to treatment in Uganda and Nigeria.
- Our Nigeria staff share experiences engaging Men as Partners in the fight to end fistula
- FC+ presence at the 2016 ISOFS Conference in Abuja and the Health Systems Research Symposium in Vancouver
- Putting the Lancet Maternal Health Series into Action: Five Next Steps from MHTF
- New research on pregnancy and childbirth following fistula repair from team member Dr. Alex Delamou
- MHTF writes about our webinar “A Call to Action to End Iatrogenic Fistula”
- Read our newest technical brief on an emerging quality of care issue: iatrogenic fistula..
- The Nigeria team speaks to AllAfrica about the successes and challenges of providing family planning and fistula services in the country
- Nigeria: Hurdles before Fistula Care
- On World Population Day, EngenderHealth CEO Ulla Muller discussed the organization’s fistula and family planning work on the Huffington Post Blog.
- NEW: Obstetric Emergency Drills Training Kit, developed by the Maternal Health Task Force and the Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy in Argentina.
- FC+ Bangladesh discusses International Day to End Obstetric Fistula and efforts to “end fistula within a generation” in the country.
- New DHS research shows link between fistula and sexual violence.
- FC+ Nigeria staff explain how family planning can prevent fistula and save lives in the Vanguard Nigeria.
- Congratulations to longtime FC+ partner, Professor Denis Mukwege of Panzi Hospital, who was voted one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2016!
- Join MHTF and UNFPA on April 13 for a Wilson Center event on maternal health priorities and progress in advance of Women Deliver!
- Nicholas Kristof brings attention to the work of FC+ and partners in The New York Times
- New Lancet Global Health article highlights the double burden of fistula and stillbirth
- Read the newest publication by Alex Delamou, “Prevalence and correlates of intimate partner violence among FP clients in Conakry, Guinea”
- “Dry,” a FC+ supported film about fistula in Nigeria by actress Stephanie Linus, is covered on NPR Goats and Soda.
- The Guardian Nigeria speaks to experts, including FC+ staff, on what can be done to end fistula.
- Wilson Center dispatch from Mexico City featuring info from the FC+ convened panel on iatrogenic fistula
- As we gear up for GMNHC 2015 in Mexico City, check out our two new blog posts on MHTF Blog: Disruptive Innovation for Maternal Health at GMNHC and Integration and Equity in Fistula Care.
- “Build It and They Will Come”- New approaches to eliminating fistula ft. FC+ in the Huffington Post!
- Dr. Romanzi speaks about the dangers of prolonged obstructed labor, including fistula, to Voice of America.
- “Dry”, a movie about obstetric fistula featuring Stephanie Linus, premiers at the Silverbird Cinema in Abuja on August 13th with the support of FC+
- FC+ will be at the event on Population Council/USAID data on “What Works to Delay Child Marriage”: follow the discussion online at #EvidenceForGirls and #EndChildMarriage
- New research out of the Fistula Care project published by Dr. Alex Delamou in Tropical Medicine & Intl Health: Factors associated with loss to follow up in Guinea
- Director Lauri Romanzi spoke at the Wilson Center on July 14 along with UNFPA, USAID, and other partners. See the New Security Beat blog and recorded presentation here.
- On a recent trip to northern Nigeria, team members from New York, Sokoto, and Abuja met with Governor Bagudu of Kebbi State and his wife Dr. Zainab Bagudu.
- Deputy Director Vandana Tripathi and MCSP present a new index in PLOS ONE to measure quality of facility based labor and delivery care in Sub Saharan Africa.
- FC+ Nigeria Project Manager Dr. Habib Sadauki tells allAfrica news, “If we can address obstructed labour, we can address fistula.”
- June 8-14: Deputy Director Vandana Tripathi is representing FC+ at the Measurement and Accountability for Results in Health Summit in Washington DC.
- “Burden of Obstetric Fistula: from measurement to action” by Saifuddin Ahmed and Ozge Tuncalp in the Lancet Global Health.
- A new analysis by Lindsay Mallick at the DHS Program uses proxy variables to measure vaginal fistula prevalence.
- “End the Inequity, End Fistula”” EngenderHealth CEO Pam Barnes and actress Mira Sorvino highlight the importance of access to emergency obstetric care and ending fistula in the Huffington Post!
- Our FC+ Bangladesh staff discuss the link between poverty and obstetric fistula in The Daily Star.
- If you missed the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula Twitter chat hostel by J&J Global Health, check out the conversation via #EndFistula and #WomenInspire and through @fistulacare!
- Post on exciting new Fistula Care Plus research that will shorten recovery time for fistula patients now available on the FC+ blog and the Maternal Health Task Force Blog.
- The WHO has released a statement on our joint RCT on catheterization following fistula repair, stating that “fistula repair centres would be able to increase their caseloads using the same amount of resources if 7 day catheterization was widely adopted after repair of simple fistula.”
- Read the New York Times article on tracing the source of conflict minerals and their effect on the people of the DRC, authored by the Medical Director of our DRC partner site Dr. Denis Mukwege.
- EngenderHealth has announced the publication of study results in The Lancet that have the potential to dramatically improve standards of care following obstetric fistula repairs. Read the full press release detailing the results of the large-scale study on short-duration catheterization by FC+ and the WHO on our blog.
- WHO releases new statement on Caesarean section utilization and ideal C-section rates.
- Dr. Denis Mukwege, expert fistula surgeon at our supported DRC site Panzi Hospital, is the subject of a new documentary entitled “L’homme qui répare les femmes/ The man repairing women.”
- Read the newest FC+ blog post on the recently released MHTF working paper on critical gaps in maternal health knowledge.
- Check out the new UNFPA report “The Campaign to End Fistula: 10 years on” which outlines a decade of fistula work by UNFPA and partners including Fistula Care Plus.
- Interested in essential surgery in developing countries? Check out a new World Bank feature story and blog post on the topic.
- Study from northern Nigeria, where FC+ works, shows how female Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) can increase MNCH service utilization.
- A new WomanStats Database contains 350 indicators on the status of women from 175 countries.
- Obstetric fistula as the newest Trending Topic on the Health Communication Capacity Collective (HC3)’s Health COMpass.
- New fistula-related research: A recently published study from the Fistula Care project in Guinea shows that routine fistula repair in low resource settings can lead to good clinical outcomes, and a mental health intervention for fistula patients in Tanzania.
- Read about why protecting health care workers from Ebola in Guinea matters to Fistula Care Plus
- See the work of Fistula Care Plus in Nigeria highlighted in The Daily Trust
- Rethinking How to Promote Maternity Care-Seeking: Factors Associated With Institutional Delivery in Guinea – one of Health Care for Women International’s top 3 most dowloaded articles of 2014 written by FC+ team members and partners
- See what Fistula Care Plus is doing to strengthen infection prevention services
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