"EngenderHealth -- Growing Choice in Guinea and Beyond"

Moustapha at Kolaboui
Moustapha Diallo,
Program Director
EngenderHealth Guinea

Ana Langer EngenderHealth CEO
Ana Langer,
President and
CEO
EngenderHealth

In "EngenderHealth -- Growing Choice in Guinea and Beyond" Moustapha Diallo takes Future Choices to Guinea to learn how EngenderHealth's holistic approach to resolution of health, economic and social issues is enabling his country to make significant progress. Mr. Diallo recounts that EngenderHealth is also helping medical personnel learn to deal effectively with a tragic side effect of the civil wars in neighboring countries: the surge of traumatic fistula among young victims of rape in border communities.

In turn, Ana Langer describes EngenderHealth's multi-pronged approach in the other countries where they work to not only obstetric fistula but also to involvement of men in the promotion of safe motherhood and concern for the health of their children. Through its Men as Partners program EngenderHealth is able to help develop tools to combat HIV/AIDS.

Further reading on these issues

  • EngenderHealth today expressed deep concern over the Bush Administration’s 2007 budget package which proposes alarming funding cuts for international family planning programs. Read further on EngenderHealth website and in New York Times February 15 article.

  • Ana and Moustapha came to Larchmont in late January to share with interested residents their observations about EngenderHealth's work in Ethiopia. Read further in the Larchmont Gazette.

  • Religion Boosts Reproductive Health in Guinea: Read further about how Muslim imams reach out to communities with positive health messages.
  • EngenderHealth’s ongoing work with a mining company in Guinea to improve health services is benefiting all of the region’s residents. Read further about this unusual public-private partnership.
  • One of EngenderHealth's longest standing MAP programs continues to flourish in South Africa. Listen to Digital Stories: South Africans Respond to HIV/AIDS and Violence Against Women.
  • Biographical Background about guests:
    • As EngenderHealth’s Program Manager in Guinea, Moustapha Diallo...
    • Dr. Ana Langer, the President and CEO of EngenderHealth, is a physician with board certification in pediatrics and neonatology, as well as a reproductive health specialist and public health researcher. For the past 20 years... Read a brief bio of Ana Langer.
  • EngenderHealth has launched an ambitious program to reduce the incidence of obstetric fistula in Guinea. Read more about this tragic outgrowth of inadequate prenatal care and EngenderHealth's strategy for enabling developing nations to deal with it.
  • Downloadable brochures (in French and English) about EngenderHealth may be found here.