Adiza Mohamadou, a resident of northern Mali, recently underwent surgical repair of her obstetric fistula through the first fistula campaign supported by Fistula Care in collaboration with Medecins sans Frontiers which took place in March 2009 in Gao. “I have lived with obstetric fistula for the past three years,” Madame Mohamadou says. “I heard about the campaign on the radio and I decided to come on my own. I am very satisfied with this initiative. People have been very respectful.”

Ethiopia has approximately 428,000 people with tuberculosis (TB) and 1,480,000 people with HIV. While properly evaluating and supervising the health care workers supporting these people can improve service delivery, the vast size of the country and still-developing infrastructure make the process difficult. The Private Sector Program (PSP-One, through which IntraHealth contributed supportive supervision implementation) introduced the use of hand-held computers, or PDAs, to improve TB testing and HIV counseling and testing services.