I feel like things are being looked at here in a bit of a bad faith manner. I apologize if I am wrong.
Yes “in it to end it” is an aspirational phrase, and limited to their “vision” page. It’s not at the forefront of any details of what they are actually doing on the ground.
I imagine the Fistula Foundation team is indeed motivated to see this problem eliminated from the planet totally.
Perhaps they will transform more to the prevention side as they finish their mission of tackling the extremely low-hanging fruit of curing 88% of the 1 million women who have these 2 conditions of untreated obstetric fistula and untreated perineal tears. That is the obvious thing to do for now and will eliminate 88% of the issue of untreated birth trauma.
People in EA think that we will all be immortal and merge with machines. And many other crazy things. But perhaps we will never ever be able to stop all women from being permanently incontinent due to birth trauma. To me this seems more than plausible.
They are indeed building up local obstetric health infrastructure, in some manner or another. I did not say they are currently providing care prior to or during births as you seemed to think I said. Obstetrics is anything to do with the female reproductive organs.
I merely speculated that as FF amplifies and supports the efforts of already amazing OB/GYNs around the low-income world, and continuing to build up their outreach programs that brings in women from all over the place in to be connected with OB/GYNs, that this could at some point spill over more into the prevention side of things. Maybe I’m wrong about that. That’s why I said I wasn’t sure of it. But it is not far-fetched.
Greatly increasing the number of women who are connected with OB/GYN doctors… knowing where they are located and what they can do, etc, you think is not building up obstetric health infrastructure? This is the phrasing that I’m personally using but the details here are correct. Many of these 100,000 women they have funded surgeries for didn’t even know their condition was curable beforehand. [edit to include this link: https://fistulafoundation.org/what-we-do/how-we-work/]
I feel like things are being looked at here in a bit of a bad faith manner. I apologize if I am wrong.
Yes “in it to end it” is an aspirational phrase, and limited to their “vision” page. It’s not at the forefront of any details of what they are actually doing on the ground.
I imagine the Fistula Foundation team is indeed motivated to see this problem eliminated from the planet totally.
Perhaps they will transform more to the prevention side as they finish their mission of tackling the extremely low-hanging fruit of curing 88% of the 1 million women who have these 2 conditions of untreated obstetric fistula and untreated perineal tears. That is the obvious thing to do for now and will eliminate 88% of the issue of untreated birth trauma.
People in EA think that we will all be immortal and merge with machines. And many other crazy things. But perhaps we will never ever be able to stop all women from being permanently incontinent due to birth trauma. To me this seems more than plausible.
They are indeed building up local obstetric health infrastructure, in some manner or another. I did not say they are currently providing care prior to or during births as you seemed to think I said. Obstetrics is anything to do with the female reproductive organs.
I merely speculated that as FF amplifies and supports the efforts of already amazing OB/GYNs around the low-income world, and continuing to build up their outreach programs that brings in women from all over the place in to be connected with OB/GYNs, that this could at some point spill over more into the prevention side of things. Maybe I’m wrong about that. That’s why I said I wasn’t sure of it. But it is not far-fetched.
Greatly increasing the number of women who are connected with OB/GYN doctors… knowing where they are located and what they can do, etc, you think is not building up obstetric health infrastructure? This is the phrasing that I’m personally using but the details here are correct. Many of these 100,000 women they have funded surgeries for didn’t even know their condition was curable beforehand. [edit to include this link: https://fistulafoundation.org/what-we-do/how-we-work/]