Organizations

• Americans for UNFPA
• Engender Health
• See especially their “Fistula Care” project
• Family Care International
• Fistula Foundation
• Healing Hands of Joy
• Mercy Ships
• One by One
• Operation OF
• United Nations Foundation
• United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Campaign to End Fistula
• USAID Maternal and Child Health
• Women’s Dignity Project

Fact Sheets

• Americans for UNFPA:  Traumatic Fistula Fact Sheet
• The Fistula Foundation:  What is Fistula and Fast Facts & FAQs
• One by One:  Fistula Information
• Campaign to End Fistula:  Obstetric Fistula in Brief, Fast Facts: Fistula and Reproductive Health, and Frequently Asked Questions

Publications

• Living Testimony: Obstetric Fistula and Inequities in Maternal Health, UNFPA and Family Care International, Inc. 2007.
• Obstetric Fistula: Guiding principles for clinical management and programme development, World Health Organization 2006
• Obstetric Fistulae: a review of available information (Ref WHO/MSM/91.5, 2001)
• Obstetric vesicovaginal fistula as an international public health problem, L. Lewis Wall, MD, Lancet, September 30, 2006, Vol. 368, page 1201-1209
• Preventing Harm and Healing Wounds: Ending Obstetric Fistula, UNFPA 2008
• Urinary Incontinence in the Developing World: The Obstetric Fistula (from Incontinence, Health Publication, Ltd., 2002, ed. Abrams) by Dr. Lewis Wall, with Arrowsmith, Briggs, and Lassey.

Country-Specific Publications

• The Fistula Fortnight: Healing Wounds, Renewing Hope, The Federal Government of Nigeria and UNFPA, 2005.
• Healing Wounds, Instilling Hope: The Tanzanian Partnership Against Obstetric Fistula, The Population Council, 2004.
• The Jonhannesburg Call to Action to Make Motherhood Safer by Addressing Obstetric Fistula, Department of Health of the Republic of South Africa, UNFPA, and the World Health Organization
• Mending Torn Lives: A series of open conversations with women suffering from obstetric fistula in Eritrea, UNFPA in collaboration with the Ministry of Health of the Government of the State of Eritrea, 2003.
• Sharing the Burden: Ugandan Women Speak About Obstetric Fistula, Women’s Dignity Project and EngenderHealth, 2007.
• Risk and Resillience: Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania, Women’s Dignity Project and Engender Health, 2006.
• Situation Analysis of Obstetric Fistula in Bangladesh, UNFPA and EngenderHealth, 2003.

Brochures

• Changing Girls Lives: 10 Actions for Faith Leaders and Communities in the U.S., United Nations Foundation, 2008.
• Ending the Silent Suffering, UNFPA Campaign to End Fistula
• Neglected No More, UNFPA Campaign to End Fistula.

Films and Multimedia

• A Walk to Beautiful
  Engel Entertainment produced this award-winning documentary about five Ethiopian women whose lives have been devastated by fistula and embark on a journey to reclaim their lost dignity.  Full length 85 minute version available for purchase by individuals and institutions, 58 minute NOVA special also available for purchase.
  • Fistula Worldwide: The Hidden Epidemic
  • “A Walk to Beautiful Take Action Guide” is also available on the DVD or online (http://www.fistulafoundation.org/pdf/TakeActionGuide.pdf)
• Fistula Pilgrims (8:42)
  “The film Fistula Pilgrims was written, produced and directed by Nancy Durrell McKenna for SafeHands in partnership with the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (FIGO).  It tells the story of Telanish, a young girl in Ethiopia who was married at 10, pregnant at 11 and gave birth to a stillborn child at 12…”
• Love, Labor, Loss
  Governess films produced this 15-minute advocacy video about fistula in Niger.  The video is available upon request in DVD format to NGOs and community groups to help raise awareness and funds for fistula.  The trailer is currently available on You Tube.
• Learn from My Story: Women Confront Fistula in Rural Uganda (4:20)
  In 2007, EngenderHealth partnered with the Center for Digital Storytelling and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Uganda to coordinate a workshop for Ugandan women who have experienced obstetric fistula.  During the workshop, the women shared their stories through narration, video, and pictures to illustrate in their lives, resulting in this multimedia piece to share their stories.
• UNFPA Advocacy Videos
  Links to several UNFPA and UNFPA partner-produced videos, including a 10-minute video from UNFPA, available in English and French, offers a broad overview of obstetric fistula and the global Campaign to End Fistula.
• UNFPA’s Campaign to End Fistula Commercial: “Tip Toe”
  This short “commercial” style clip is available on You Tube, based on the theme “Obstetric fistula is hard to talk about.”  A good introduction to fistula or discussion starter on what can be difficult things to talk about.
• Helping Themselves:  Nicolas D. Kristof at the Fistula Hospital

Books

• First Steps in Vesico-Vaginal Fistula Repair (Royal Society of Medicine Press, 2005) by Brian Hancock
• The Hospital by the River (Monarch Books, 2004) by Dr. Catherine Hamlin
• Obstetric Fistula (Springer Verlag Wien, 1988) by Dr Robert Zacharin.
• Step by Step Surgery of VesicoVaginal Fistulas (Campion Press, 1994) by Dr Kees Waldijk.

Bible Resources

• Resources for exploring Mark 5:21-43 at The Text This Week
• Journal Articles:
  • Dube Shomanah, Musa W. “Fifty Years of Bleeding; A Storytelling Feminist Reading of Mark 5:24-43,” The Ecumenical Review, Jan 1999.
    • Available for free here.
  • Haber, Susan.  “A Woman’s Touch; Feminist Encounters with the Hemorrhaging Woman in Mark 5:24-34,” Journal for the Study of the New Testament, vol. 26, no.2, 171-192 (2003).