#IDEOF2024 #EndFistula

#IDEOF2024 #EndFistula

#IDEOF2024 #EndFistula

👇🏽More excellent work by Texas Children’s Global Health helping women with #fistula in #Malawi! Sincere thnx also to Texas Children’s Global Health for the vital support to the FIGO HQ Fistula Surgery Training Initiative, which is transforming the lives of 1,000’s of women/girls across the 🌎 🌼 #IDEOF2024

In partnership with FIGO HQ, Hamlin Fistula HQ recently held an Expert Surgical Workshop, which focused on innovative techniques to address #urinaryincontinence post fistula repair, which impacts as many as one 1 in 4 patients. #EndObstetricFistula figo.org/news/experts-c…

The RCOG is calling for the next UK government to significantly improve maternity care by implementing fully funded cross-government policies and programmes to ensure all women receive high-quality, personalised and safe maternity care. (1/2)

It's time to call out these comments. When I started my career, the BBC called a programme I went on, about debt crisis "Hey Big Spender" - I objected. The biggest cause of debt crisis was change of circumstance. Since we've had a pandemic, cost of living crisis, mental health

As PM Rishi Sunak and Labour Leader Keir Starmer prepare for their #ITV #election debate tonight, here is a reminder of what we're calling on all the political parties to do to #EndPregnancyPoverty if they are elected to Government #tuesdaychecklist :

Devastatingly sad news! My thoughts are of course with his wife and children. Thank you for your incredible and tireless service to the public Michael Mosley - you did an amazing job! 🩵

Zum Thema Wohnen in #Bürgergeld. Frau L., 59, schreibt uns: "ich habe die Aufforderung erhalten, meine Mietkosten zu senken. Ich fing an, mir eine kleinere Wohnung zu suchen, aber bisher vergeblich. Gerade bekam ich meinen neuen Bewilligungsbescheid und mir wurde die Übernahme

1000 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. Education isn’t a privilege, it is a basic human right - a right Afghan girls and women continue to be denied. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn

🚨 REMINDER: Key deadlines for the GE on 4 July ❗️⏲️ Register to vote: Tuesday 18 June at 23:59 ❗️⏲️ Applying for a postal vote: Wednesday 19 June at 17:00 ⏲️ Applying for a Voter ID: Wednesday 26 June at 17:00 ⏲️ Applying for a proxy vote: Wednesday 26 June at 17:00

If you've lived this long and have not had to realise that - *everything*- where you live, what you read, the streets you walk, what you eat, what you feel, where you work, the climate you live in, and even the air you breathe is political, I have news for you: that's privilege.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The enemy of the working class travels by private jet, not migrant dinghy.

There is no Woman of the Day post today but if there was, it would be Hildegard Trabant (born 1927 in Berlin) who died OTD in 1964 aged 37, the 50th person to die at the Berlin Wall. She was the only one known to be loyal to the East German regime so you might well ask “Why?” Why

🚨 NEW: Extreme misogyny could be treated as terrorism with Home Secretary Yvette Cooper working to “identify gaps in current legislation and examine emerging ideologies” [@Guardian]

…. ‼️ WIR #IMTEAM 🇩🇪 vereint gegen Gewalt gegen Frauen ✊ #OrangeTheWorld UN Women Deutschland

The FIGO Fistula team joined the 9th ISOFS Conference in Dhaka, sharing milestones like 20,000+ repairs and 93 Fellows in 28 countries. They disseminated training resources to 100+ participants from 20 countries, driving efforts to #EndFistula. 🌍 Gillian Slinger Lilli Trautvetter

This week, the National Obstetric Fistula Centre Babbar-Ruga in Nigeria hosts a FIGO regional workshop to boost local capacity in obstetric fistula treatment. With a focus on surgical skill development and collaborative efforts to tackle this neglected health issue.

At our recent fistula screening in Kasungu District, Malawi, we identified six women living with obstetric fistula. Now, thanks to the work of our team, these women will receive free treatment, care, and rehabilitation at our Fistula Care Centre. #EndFistula