News from HDI
Publication of fistula prevention work in Niger
Results of HDI's work to prevent obstetric fistula were published in the December 2014 issue of an internationally respected medical journal. Results include 73% fewer maternal deaths, 63.5% fewer babies born dead or dying within three days, and obstetric fistula...
Supervisor locating a village thanks to a donated Garmin GPS receiver
Belanor A/S, Garmin’s Norwegian importer, generously donated seven robust GPS receivers to the Rapid Maternal Mortality and Obstetric Fistula Prevention Project! The GPS receivers were used to gather geographic coordinates on almost 300 villages across a remote area...
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...
HDI proposes an additional paradigm for public health in The WHO Bulletin
In its May 2005 issue, The WHO Bulletin presented a new, additional paradigm of public health in an article written by HDI’s executive director: Bulletin of the World Health Organization; May 2005. 83(91) 392-5.
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December 2017
A new and more inexpensive approach to prevent obstetric fistula and maternal mortality will be tested in large populations in Niger – Spreading of the program into other countries like Togo – WHO declares Togo free of lymfatic filariasis.
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December 2016
Promising results so far in Niger to prevent excessive bleeding after giving birth – HDI’s Obstetric fistula and bleeding prevention program will be started up in Nigeria by own funding; HDI helping with planning.
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December 2015
Continued success of the world’s first obstetric fistula prevention program – Preventing women who give birth bleeding to death – Continuing supporting Guinea Worm Eradication – Helping Togo control and eliminate diseases that cause blindness, cancer, increased HIV-risk in women and intellectual impairment in children.
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Spring/Summer 2011
Rapid Prevention of Maternal Death and Obstetric Fistula—Important Meeting in Atlanta, Over 1.2 Million People in Togo Treated for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Mothers and Babies Surviving and Obstetric Fistulas Rapidly Prevented, Pro Victimis Foundation in Geneva.
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January 2010
Guinea Worm Eradication, Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) Elimination, The World’s First Rapid Obstetric Fistula Prevention Project.
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December 2008
Success at World’s First Rapid Obstetric Fistula Prevention Project.
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May 2008
Obstetric fistula prevention off to a good start!
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December 2007
Saving Lives During Childbirth: The Time is Now!
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February 2007
Saving Lives During Childbirth: The Time is Now!
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August 2006
Small Organization doing BIG THINGS; 15 years in the service of health, development, and human dignity.
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