Authored by Zoë Connor (Health Research Intern, USAID) At 18, Fatima looks like any other mother-to-be – excited for her baby to be born and to start a new chapter of her life. Yet this is not Fatima’s first pregnancy. Married young and pregnant by 15, Fatima suffered a prolonged and obstructed labor with her […]
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Obstructed labor does not end at delivery: Strengthening postpartum care following prolonged/obstructed labor
By Elly Arnoff, FC+ Program Associate – Evaluation & Research; Lauri Romanzi, FC+ Project Director; Vandana Tripathi, FC+ Deputy Director On June 20, 2017, at the 31st International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Triennial Congress in Toronto, Canada, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)–supported Fistula Care Plus (FC+) project at EngenderHealth convened a breakfast panel […]
Village Health Workers: Delivering Critical Maternal Health Information to the Last Mile
By: Simon Ndizeye, former Monitoring & Evaluation Program Associate, FC+ Uganda Rashid Byaruhanga lives in Buyanja village, located in the Hoima District of western Uganda. He lives with his wife and four children in a mud and wattle house about five kilometers from the small Buraru Health Center. In this rural area, the main sources […]
After Fistula Repair: Understanding Women’s Needs in Uganda
On April 10, 2017, Fistula Care Plus (FC+) held the webinar, “After Fistula Repair: Understanding Women’s Needs in Uganda,” the third in its Fistula Community of Practice (FCoP) webinar series. The webinar, moderated by FC+ Global Projects Manager Bethany Cole, featured Dr. Alison El Ayadi of UCSF’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, as well as commentary from the […]
MHTF Blog [Part 3] Obstetric Fistula: Innovative Interventions and the Way Forward
Originally posted on MHTF blog. By: Kayla McGowan, Project Coordinator, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Sarah Hodin, Project Coordinator II, Women and Health Initiative, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Read [Part 1] Obstetric Fistula: A Global Maternal Health Challenge>> Read [Part 2] Obstetric Fistula: Women’s Voices>> […]