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WU physician giving new lives to outcast mothers

Friday, November 20, 2009 || Becca Krock

A professor of obstetrics and gynecology is building a hospital in Niger dedicated to repairing vesicovaginal fistulas in African women whose injuries in childbirth result in a lifetime of loneliness and poverty.

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