25th February, 2009
AMREF in The News:
Denise Grady, a New York Times reporter, travelled to Dodoma in central Tanzania, where AMREF was carrying out an obstetric fistula surgery and training camp. Grady's article describes the problem facing women with Fistula, a condition caused by prolonged labor that inflicts a dreadful internal injury on mothers: which leaves them incontinent and soaked in urine.
Every year fistula affects an additional 10,000 women in sub Saharan Africa. Over the last 15 years, AMREF has been performing surgeries and training doctors to perform this operation. In 2008, nearly 1000 women received Vesico Vaginal Fistula - VVF - repairs and were restored back to social life after many years through the AMREF Surgical outreach.
Read the full article “After a Devastating Birth Injury, Hope” at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/24/health/24hospital.html
