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Restoring Her Dignity: A Health Systems Approach to the Management of Female Genital Fistula
Maternal mortality and morbidity has remained high in sub-Saharan Africa mainly due to poor access to quality reproductive health services, poverty and low education levels, lack of equity, poor road and communication infrastructure and grossly inadequate health services. Female Genital Fistula is one of the most devastating of all pregnancy-related disabilities and mainly affects poor women in under-resourced regions. Fistula mostly occurs as a result of prolonged obstructed labour coupled with lack of skilled medical care, and usually leads to permanent incontinence - a continuous leakage
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Why We Must Join Hands To Beat The Shame Of Obstetric Fistula
By Dr Elizabeth Wala An obstetric fistula is a hole between the vagina and rectum or bladder that is caused by prolonged obstructed labour, leaving a woman incontinent of urine or faeces or both. Thousands of women across Sub-Sahara Africa who are living with Obstetric Fistula cannot lead a normal life. Isolation and social segregation is their daily reality; they find themselves ostracized and disowned by their own families and the community. This creates a massive psycho-socio impact on the quality of life the patients live and curtails their contribution to their fami
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Dignity Restored
Rose* She watches us from the safety of the thin blanket she's wrapped in. She is coiled in a foetal position. Her eyes are blank. One can see straight through to the back of her head. Her dark motionless face watches us dis-interestingly. "Rose*! Rose!" the nurse calls her. Only her eyes shift towards the sound of the voice. She then adjusts her position by coiling tighter into her warm blanket. "Can she talk?" I ask the nurse. "She only responds to her name. Nothing more." I look at her surroundings. A folded wheelchair has been placed next to her bed. A half dr
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Ending Obstetric fistula via a human rights approach – Amref Health Africa in Kenya Experience
Obstetric fistula is a severe maternal morbidity which can affect any woman or girl who suffers from prolonged or obstructed labour without timely access to an emergency Caesarean section. It is one of the most devastating consequences of neglected childbirth and a stark example of health inequity in the world. Although obstetric fistula has been eliminated in industrialized countries, it continues to afflict the most impoverished women and girls in the developing world, mainly those in rural and remote areas. Eliminating obstetric fistula as a global health problem necessitates scaling
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