Obstetric Fistula: A Legal Perspective, AFR (Halifax) Lions Club Speak-Out First Place Winner:11/29/2011  By Habiba Cooper Diallo
About 4 years ago, I was doing some online research on women’s health issues around the world, when a very compelling article in the Wall Street journal caught my attention. It headlined Anafghat Ayouba from Niger who was suffering an extremely tragic maternal health illness: obstetric fistula. It is important that you understand this issue well in order for you to fully grasp its severity and affliction. Obstetric fistula is a childbirth-driven illness that affects about 2 million women worldwide. But even that is a very crude estimate, being that it afflicts women in the world’s most remote regions, hence some researchers estimate it to be around 3.5 million. It results from a prolonged, obstructed labour in which there is no emergency medical care intervention, for example, a caesarean section (C-Section).
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Habiba Cooper DialloI am a Canadian end fistula advocate and blogger, and the founder of the Women’s Health Organization International, WHOI. I have been doing fistula awareness-building in Canada for the past 12 years. My work on fistula has led me to Ghana, Senegal, Guinea, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone. I have been featured in Forbes, the HuffPost, and UNFPA 
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