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A Shameful Condition: Obstetric Fistula (Webcast)
June 25, 2015 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Join Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for an in-depth conversation about one of the most painful, and preventable, maternal maladies: obstetric fistulas. They have all but vanished in prosperous countries, where women can get emergency obstetric care, but in developing regions, some 50,000 to 100,000 girls and women develop an obstetric fistula every year. Women living with a fistula frequently live as outcasts, rejected from family and community. The physical pain, combined with the social implications, can make life unbearable. On June 25, as part of MSF’s ongoing Because Tomorrow Needs Her project on women’s health, three fistula experts will discuss why women continue to develop this preventable condition, the impact fistulas have on women, their families and their communities, and the options that exist for treatment and prevention.