For Immediate Release
July 01, 2004

We've Changed Our Name!

Thanks in part to light shed on the fistula issue in The New York Times and on the Oprah Winfrey Show, millions of people worldwide now know about obstetric fistula, the devastating childbirth injury that is affecting more than 100,000 women every year throughout the developing world.

As a major nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, the world's preeminent center for fistula treatment and prevention, we now seek to make obstetric fistula better understood, and to enable Fistula Hospital to continue its work for as long as there is a need. To do this, we have chosen a new name that more clearly articulates who we are and what we do, a name that educates, a name that is easy to remember. American Friends Foundation for Childbirth Injuries (AFFCI) is now The Fistula Foundation.

As The Fistula Foundation, we remain dedicated to the treatment and prevention of obstetric fistula through support of the programs of Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, the world's preeminent fistula treatment center. We continue to raise awareness of the fistula issue worldwide and raise funds to treat and prevent fistula in Ethiopia.

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