Dr. R has the most genuine intentions. It was not until we began our dinner at the conference that she presents her video about women with fistula. As I ate Talapia with mango sauce, each bite became harder to swallow. I will do something about this...
Fistula is an injury that occurs during child labor when lack of blood supply to the bladder and vagina causes tissue to die. Basically, two of the three genital orifices become one. Without any tissue, women cannot control fecal and urine excretion. They are ostracised from their families and communities because they give off a rancid smell.
About 100,000 new cases of fistula occur each year. I am really bothered by this number..it is so easy to toss around numbers..100,000 people...something must be done.
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Hi there,
On a completely different issue, I think you should consider supporting the Jim Webb campaign in Virginia.
Jim Webb quit the Republican Party in the early 1990s, after clashing with the staunchly pro-Israel “Neo-conservative” ideologues he viewed as enemies of America and the West.
The fact he’s running against George Felix Allen, a self-declared friend of the Israeli fascist far-right and a staunch supporter of President Bush’s neo-colonial wars of aggression can only endear him to us!
Over the past decade, the White House, the Pentagon and Congress have become mere Middle-Eastern-occupied Bantustans with the kings of Israel and Saudi Arabia calling the shots…
Clearly, it’s “time we got our country back [and] on track”.
So join me in supporting the Virginian maverick…and add a link to the Jim Webb site (no pun intended!)
i read about this a couple of years ago- it's very disturbing that this happens and the women are not only left in bad shape healthwise but are also shunned away from society for something that is not their fault in the first place- i also saw once (on oprah, yes) that they have started special hospitals for them, in some cases it can be reversed, but mostly they are trying to build communities and special "villages" for them so they can at least lead as normal lives as possible
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