BOP 2007 > Still Photography Winners > Photojournalist of the Year (smaller markets)
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TRAIL OF TEARS Fistula is a debilitating condition in which women injured in childbirth uncontrollably leak a trail of urine or feces. While a delivery by caesarian section prevents obstetric fistula, in sub-Saharan Africa such medical procedures and prenatal care rarely exist. As many as three million women, many in Ethiopia, suffer the devastating effects of this injury, while being shunned by the patriarchal society of their clans and villages. The Bahar Dar Fistula Hospital is one of the few refuges for these suffering women.
Netsanet Feleke, 15, stands in a mud house in her village in Bure, Ethiopia. She has been leaking urine, and with no medical care available nearby, she must travel a few hours to the Bahar Dar Hamlin Fistula Center, in Bahar Dar, Ethiopia.
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