Environmental toxicants and their impact on fertility | Repairing fistulas in Africa

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Part 1: Environmental toxicants and their impact on fertility

  • The increasing amounts of endocrine disrupting chemicals in our environment since the 1950s
  • How endocrine disrupting chemicals affect fertility in both males and females
  • The effects of endocrine disrupting chemicals on the fetus
  • How to minimise exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals in our environment

 

Host: Dr Terri Foran, Medical Educator

Expert: A/Prof Mark Green, Reproductive Biologist

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Part 2: Repairing fistulas in Africa

  • One doctor’s personal experience of working in Africa to positively change the lives of women with obstetric fistula
  • Approximately two million women in the world suffer the effects of obstetric fistula but have little or no access to fistula surgery, almost all in developing countries
  • Providing women with access to a safe child birth practices is the best form of prevention
  • The role of an Australian charity – The Barbara May Foundation, in tackling this issue

 

Host: Dr Vivienne Miller, Medical Educator

Expert: Dr Andrew Browning AM, Obstetrician

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Last Updated: 4 Jul, 2024

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