HDI and Niger start community based program to prevent maternal death and obstetric fistula
Is $1.38 too much to spend to save the lives of women and protect girls as young as 13 from the indignities, suffering, and permanently guaranteed poverty that obstetric fistula ensures? HDI and Niger are starting a community-based program this year to rapidly prevent...
HDI, UNFPA and CDC organize reproductive health policy conference
In October 2005, HDI co-sponsored, along with the UNFPA and the CDC, a conference at the Emory University Conference Center in Atlanta with worldwide experts to review the state of obstetric fistula treatment and prevention. Among other things, HDI’s plan to apply...
Dr. Catherine Hamlin attends HDI and University of Oslo Seminar
Dr. Catherine Hamlin, founder of the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, attends HDI and the University of Oslo seminar, October 25, 2005. Ladies who have made the world a better place, Dr. Catherine Hamlin (Ethiopia) and Professor Gerusa Dreyer (Brazil), at the HDI /...