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Column: Obstetric fistulas easily reversed

U.S.-based doctor and Worldwide Fistula Fund founder Lewis Wall promotes a simple $300 surgery that easily reverses the effects of obstetric fistulas, returning women to health and to society. Women who develop fistulas during childbirth often are younger mothers. In many African societies, a fistula is a sentence of ostracism for the women who suffer them.

New York Times, The | 11/02

This story published in UN Wire on 11/02/2009

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