Ugandan Fistula Survivor: Medius's Story
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Learn from My Story: Women Confront Fistula in Rural Uganda
In August 2007, the ACQUIRE Project partnered with the Center for Digital Storytelling and St. Joseph's Hospital in Uganda to coordinate a workshop for Ugandan women who have experienced obstetric fistula. The resulting videos recount hardships and celebrate achievements related to their daily struggles with pregnancy, loss, relationships, as well as their search for safety, acceptance, and dignity.
The ACQUIRE Project, of which EngenderHealth is the managing partner, works globally to advance and support the availability, quality, and use of facility-based reproductive health and family planning services at every level of the health care system. In many African and Asian countries, the ACQUIRE Project is building local capacity to treat and prevent obstetric fistula, and to support fistula patients through reintegration programs.
For more information about the ACQUIRE Project, please visit www.acquireproject.org. For more information about EngenderHealth, please visit www.engenderhealth.org, e-mail info@engenderhealth.org, or call 001-212-561-8000.
This workshop was coordinated by the ACQUIRE Project and made possible by the generous support of the American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under the terms of cooperative agreement GPO-A-00-03-00006-00.
Copyright 2007 EngenderHealth/The ACQUIRE Project.
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You really have to wonder WHY so many of these women have terrible tearing & stillbirths. I know the answer has got to be the horrible genital mutilation done to them when they are still children. Often, the only parts left of the pubic area is a small opening to pass urine. Of course a baby cannot be pushed through thick scar tissue, yet none of these fistula stories seem to even address this fact. American doctors run with this kind of bad result of home delivery & scare women here with it.
Capri195555 8 months ago