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Thursday, Aug 9, 2012 7:00 PM
Doors at 6:15pm
Film at 7:00pm


This award-winning feature length documentary depicts the lives and treatment of five Ethiopian women who suffer from obstetric fistula, a socially and physically devastating childbirth injury secondary to obstructed labor. The proceeds from this event will help support OHSU Global Women’s Health Initiative, the Footsteps to Healing project.

This is a collaborative project between health care providers at OHSU and other partner hospitals in Portland and a rural hospital in Gimbie, Ethiopia . The project provides pelvic floor reconstructive surgery for women who experience uterovaginal prolapse and incontinence as a result of child birth related trauma to the pelvic floor. The project also supports midwifery training and community outreach research to improve women’s health. For more information, visit our website.
 
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This award-winning feature length documentary depicts the lives and treatment of five Ethiopian women who suffer from obstetric fistula, a socially and physically devastating childbirth injury secondary to obstructed labor. The proceeds from this event will help support OHSU Global Women’s Health Initiative, the Footsteps to Healing project.

This is a collaborative project between health care providers at OHSU and other partner hospitals in Portland and a rural hospital in Gimbie, Ethiopia.  The project provides pelvic floor reconstructive surgery for women who experience uterovaginal prolapse and incontinence as a result of child birth related trauma to the pelvic floor. The project also supports midwifery training and community outreach research to improve women’s health.  For more information, visit our website at www.ohsuwomenshealth.com/global.