NYTimes Article: "After A Devastating Birth Injury, Hope"

Ideally, fistulas should be prevented, but prevention — which requires education, more hospitals, doctors and midwives, and better transportation — lags far behind treatment. Worldwide, there are still 100,000 new cases a year, and most experts think it will take decades to eliminate fistulas in Africa, even though they were wiped out in developed countries a century ago. Their continuing presence is a sign that medical care for pregnant women is desperately inadequate.

“Fistula is the thing to follow,” Dr. Wilkinson said. “If you find patients with fistula, you’ll also find that mothers and babies are dying right and left.”

While this article highlights a hospital in Tanzania, the problem of fistulas are a big big problem in Africa and Asia (as the article states). Mercy Ships has a clinic especially for fixing fistulas in Freetown, Sierra Leone. So....this is pretty relevant. :-/