Mar 2 2012
"In an effort to coordinate prevention and treatment of fistula across the globe, targeting outside help where it can do the most good," the non-profit Direct Relief International has developed an interactive Global Fistula Care Map, "display[ing] more than 150 health facilities that provide fistula repair in 40 countries across Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East," Miller-McCune reports. "'Documenting where treatment is available is critical to providing care, raising resources, and restoring the health and dignity of women and girls living with fistula,' Gillian Slinger, the United Nations Population Fund coordinator of the Campaign to End Fistula, was quoted in a release [.pdf] announcing the map," the news service writes (Skenazy, 2/29).
 This article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.
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