Table 3.
Organization | Geography | Summary of programming |
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Beyond Fistula | Kenya | Counseling, vocational training, business training, and educational scholarships |
Comprehensive Community‐Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania | Tanzania | Mabinti Center offers psychological counseling, family planning, and HIV/AIDS prevention in addition to a vocational training program in handicrafts that helps women to start their own businesses and become financially independent |
Freedom from Fistula | Madagascar, Malawi, Kenya | Classes in literacy/numeracy, handicrafts, micro‐finance support and business; contraceptive counseling; seeks to develop patient advocates |
Hamlin Hospital | Ethiopia | Comprehensive learning, health, and reintegration services including nutrition, physiotherapy, psychological counseling, and training in income‐generating skills |
TERREWODE | Uganda | Postsurgical care, nutritional support, psychosocial counseling, life‐skills training, health education, and income‐generating skills development. TERREWODE develops patients as advocates, and builds individual and community resources for support and stigma reduction |
WADADIA | Kenya | Health education, psychosocial support, and training in income‐generating activities for economic empowerment |
Worldwide Fistula Fund | Kenya | Psychosocial support, literacy and leadership training, and the development and facilitation of fistula solidarity groups—cooperative groups that identify an enterprise or activity for income generation |
Organizations provided included an adequate level of detail in the unpublished literature to abstract this information; other organizations may provide similar programming, but this information was not accessible during our review.