Cassia in The Concubine of Shanghai by Hong Ying

62 138. Supporting efforts to end obstetric fistula

And the most devastating injury is obstetric fistula.

The baby died, and she ended up with a fistula.

In February 2005, Virgin Unite and UNFPA, along with several other partners, collaborated in organizing a fistula fortnight a two week fistula advocacy, training and treatment event in Nigeria.

and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary and a hin of olive oil.

Vedan and Javan traded with yarn for your wares bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were among your merchandise.

And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin

One of the consequences of such traditional practices, particularly early marriage, is obstetric fistula.

All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

Another preventable, treatable medical condition was fistula, which had been referred to as the nightmare for African women .

(d) To develop a national strategy of prevention and treatment to effectively address the condition of obstetric fistula and to further develop a multisectoral, comprehensive and integrated approach to bring about lasting solutions and a meaningful response to the problem of obstetric fistula and related morbidities

Delegations commended UNFPA work in the area of South South cooperation, its success with the obstetric fistula campaign, and the youth advisory programme.

Conquered by the Romans in 311 BC, Arretium became a military station on the via Cassia, the road to expansion by republican Rome into the basin of the Po.

She observed that there were over 1,000 applicants for internships in the Fund's special youth programme, and mentioned successful private sector partnerships for the fistula campaign.

(e) To mobilize funding to provide free or subsidized fistula repairs, including through encouraging more networking among providers and the sharing of new treatment techniques and protocols

(c) In the tenth preambular paragraph the word rape was inserted after the words female infanticide , and the words incidence of fistula were replaced by the words forced marriage

The foreign missionary opened the door, knew exactly what had happened, took her to a nearby fistula hospital in Addis Ababa, and she was repaired with a 350 dollar operation.

Deeply concerned that early childbearing, malnutrition and limited access to sexual and reproductive health as well as emergency obstetric care causes high levels of fistula and maternal mortality and morbidity,

The foreign missionary opened the door, knew exactly what had happened, took her to a nearby fistula hospital in Addis Ababa, and she was repaired with a 350 dollar operation.

There are thousands of these stories, and many of the women had holes in their bodies holes, fistula that were the violation of war holes in the fabric of their souls.

There are thousands of these stories, and many of the women had holes in their bodies holes, fistula that were the violation of war holes in the fabric of their souls.

Deeply concerned that early childbearing and limited access to sexual and reproductive health care, including in the area of emergency obstetric care, causes high levels of fistula and maternal mortality and morbidity,

Deeply concerned that early childbearing and limited access to sexual and reproductive health care, including in the area of emergency obstetric care, causes high levels of obstetric fistula and maternal mortality and morbidity,

10. Urges the international community to address the shortages of doctors, nurses and other health workers trained in lifesaving obstetric care, and of space and supplies, which limit the capacity of most of the fistula centres

Reduced complication rates even for third degree repair (e.g., fistula rates below 5 ) have been reported in recent years from centers with the most experience, and surgical repair is now performed for the vast majority of infants with hypospadias.

Welcoming the contribution by Member States, the international community and civil society to the global Campaign to End Fistula, bearing in mind that a people centred approach to social and economic development is fundamental to protecting and empowering individuals and communities,

Infant mortality rates are relatively very high, as over 8 of infants die during or shortly after childbirth, (although this is a dramatic decrease from 16 in 1965) while birth related complications such as obstetric fistula affect many of the nation's women.

(i) To develop means of transportation and financing that enable women and girls to access obstetric care and treatment, and provide incentives and other means to secure the presence in rural areas of qualified health professionals who are able to perform interventions to prevent obstetric fistula

2. Stresses the need to address the social issues that contribute to the problem of obstetric fistula, such as early marriage of the girl child, early pregnancy, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health, lack of or inadequate education of girls, poverty and low status of women and girls