Press Room
For more than 30 years, Worldwide Fistula Fund has been assisting local leaders to build maternal healthcare capacity in sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on devastating childbirth injuries.
Our most recent impact report details our capacity building efforts in 5 countries to end obstetric fistula and other childbirth injuries.
Press Releases
- Renowned Fistula Surgeon from Burkina Faso to Visit U.S. in September for Awareness and Advocacy Tour (August 25, 2025)
- WFF Launches Program Partners Network to Strengthen Global Fistula Care (August 13, 2025)
- Worldwide Fistula Fund Elects New Board Leadership and Expands with Experts in Clinical Social Work and Finance (July 10, 2025)
- WFF Reflects on 30 Years in the Fight, As we Look to International Day to End Obstetric Fistula (May 21, 2025)
- WFF’s 9-year Partner Finishes Hospital Construction (June 18, 2019)
- Local Maternal Health Nonprofit Awarded $5,000 Grant from Million Dollar Round Table Foundation (August 2, 2017)
She is Us: The WFF Bulletin
WFF & Our Program Partners in the News
- Survivor using experience to spread fistula awareness (Tony Wafula, People Daily, May 27, 2025)
- How one woman turned pain into purpose to end Fistula in Kenya (Juliet Omelo, The Standard Health, May 27, 2025)
- Specialised hospital for fistula opens in east (Monitor, June 6, 2019)
- Women’s Charity Hosting Fundraiser at Moe’s Cantina with Taco Bar, Raffle Prizes and More to Help Women in Africa (Kelly Bauer, Book Club Chicago, April 9, 2019)
- A Few things You Should Know About a Terrible Thing Called Fistula (Joy Portella, minerva strategies, June 18, 2018)
- When is Nonprofit Consolidation the Right Choice? (Clarissa Debrot, Giving Compass, September 20, 2018)
- Washington People: Tracy Spitznagle (Judy Martin Finch, WashU Medicine, December 4, 2018)
- Where Young Women Find Healing and Hope (Nicholas Kristof, NYT, July 13, 2013)
- Saving the Lives of Moms (Nicholas Kristof, NYT, May 12, 2012)
- New Life for the Pariahs (Nicholas Kristof, NYT, October 31, 2009)
Press Contact
Barbara Kochard
Associate Director, Development & Marketing
847.264.5949
Barbara.kochard@wffund.org
