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Video Clip: A Walk to Beautiful12 hours ago
"A Walk to Beautiful" is the true story of five Ethiopian women who suffer from fistula, a devastating childbirth injury and their journey to find new hope for better lives. Instead of living in a culture that ostracizes them for the …
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Peggy Simpson | "A Walk to Beautiful"4 hours ago
Writing for The Women's Media Center, Peggy Simpson states, "It's hard enough to get US audiences to watch international news, let alone news about women, let alone news about a medical tragedy that has made two million women in Africa …
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WMC Exclusive: "A Walk to Beautiful" - The Power of Women's Stories
But as Peggy Simpson writes in today's WMC Exclusive, that's just what PBS/NOVA did in producing A Walk to Beautiful, a documentary airing tonight about the epidemic of obstetric fistula, a totally preventable medical condition that …
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A Walk to Beautiful
NOVA: A Walk to Beautiful, airs Tuesday, May 13 at 9:00 pm on WPBT/Channel 2 in Miami This program tells the story of three women in Ethiopia suffering from devastating childbirth injuries. Rejected by their husbands and ostracized by …
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A Walk to Beautiful
Tonight, May 13, PBS is airing an award-winning documentary on NOVA called, A Walk to Beautiful, which is about the work done by the doctor in this book. I've set my DVR and look forward to watching it when I get back. …
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Nova Takes a "Walk to Beautiful"
"A Walk to Beautiful" eschews the standard Nova-style narration, and while not all documentaries need a "voice of god" narrator, this one certainly could use some more direction than it has. The documentary begins by plopping the viewer …
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TV Review: Nova - "A Walk to Beautiful"
… doesn't mean the documentary is particularly well constructed or presented in a terribly interesting way. A good example of this is the newest Nova episode, "A Walk to Beautiful." The episode is actually a shortened version of an…
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Nova: A Walk to Beautiful (Review)
For all its attention to the good work done by doctors in Ethiopia, A Walk to Beautiful maintains focus on its women subjects.
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Three documentaries; two deadly, one 'Beautiful'
On the other hand, “A Walk to Beautiful” (8 pm Tuesday, WTTW-Ch. 11) may be the most moving documentary of the year. I spent parts of this hourlong film wiping away tears, contemplating the resilience of young Ethiopian women whose …
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Five Things to Do Today
PBS presents A Walk to Beautiful, a one-hour doc that explores the tragic lives of Ethiopian women who’ve become outcasts in their communities due to obstetric fistula, a serious childbirth injury. 2. Vote on your favorite waterfront …
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WMC Exclusive: "A Walk to Beautiful" - The Power of Women's Stories
But as Peggy Simpson writes in today's WMC Exclusive, that's just what PBS/NOVA did in producing A Walk to Beautiful, a documentary airing tonight about the epidemic of obstetric fistula, a totally preventable medical condition that …
Majority Post - http://womensmediacenter.com/b2evolution/index.php?blog=5

Okay, so I'm flipping through the stations at home on TV guess …
What is an obstetric fistula, you might be wondering? Well it's basically an extremely painful and tragically embarrassing thing that happens to women after childbirth that has been neglected. There are like 60 gynecologists for the …
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PBS Nova-Fistula
It is about Ethiopian women who walk across miles of nowhere for surgery on their obstetric fistula. This is not seen very much at all in developed countries-but is frequent in developing countries. It is caused by early teen pregnancy, …
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Women in Ethiopia devastated by childbirth injuries
“A Walk to Beautiful” tells the stories of rural women who make their way to Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth that was once common in the …
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Healing Childbirth Injuries in Ethiopia (The Leonard Lopate Show …
Obstetric fistula was once a common childbirth injury, but it’s now relegated to the poorest regions of the world. In Ethiopia, women who suffer from fistulas are treated like social pariahs and forced to live alone – unless they can …
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Women’s Health: Childbirth
Without adequate birth support, obstructed labor can lead to the development of obstetric fistula, “the most devestating of all pregnancy-related disabilities,” according to the UN Population Fund. While fistulas are virtually unheard …
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A Walk to Beautiful
The film tells the personal stories of rural women who make their way to Addis Ababa, seeking treatment for obstetric fistula, a life-shattering complication of childbirth that was once common in the pre-industrial United States but …
Radical Womanhood - http://solofemininity.blogs.com/posts/

TV - the good and the bad
This is a collection of stories of rural Ethiopian women who are treated as pariahs in their communities because they have obstetric fistula [a childbirth complication that causes chronic incontinence]. If looking on your local tv guide …
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Five Things to Do Today
PBS presents A Walk to Beautiful, a one-hour doc that explores the tragic lives of Ethiopian women who’ve become outcasts in their communities due to obstetric fistula, a serious childbirth injury. 2. Vote on your favorite waterfront …
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Living testimony: Obstetric fistula and inequities in maternal health.11 Apr 2008
Experiences of women living with obstetric fistula, their families, community members, and health care providers are brought to light. This information represents important research on the social, cultural, political, and economic …
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