Obstructed labour can happen to any woman, regardless of geographical location. However, it is only in the developing world that it leads to devastating injuries such as obstetric fistula. This, ...

Padma and Seema's stories echo the impact of the debilitating nature of obstetric fistula on women in low-resource settings, ...

UNICEF USA recently met with Nafisa Binte Shafique, UNICEF Representative in The Gambia, to learn more about UNICEF's efforts ...

The assistant commissioner of clinical services in the ministry of health, Dr Alex Wasomoka, has raised concern over the increasing backlog of fistula cases in Uganda.He told a media breakfast meeting ...

Obstetric fistula disables millions of women and girls in developing countries, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) recently launched a ...

Married at the tender age of 13 and diagnosed with vaginal fistula when she was 16 years old, Seema’s existence has since become synonymous with agony. Every villager, out of pity for her ...

How a team of nurses from the UK and Uganda introduced a training package to care for women undergoing obstetric fistula surgery Obstetric fistula is a condition with severe personal and social ...

The ministry of women affairs has inaugurated a vesico vaginal fistula (VVF) treatment centre at the Gwarimpa General ...

Chennai: The Madras High Court bench recently directed the State Government to pay Rs 2 lakh compensation to a woman whose ...

Seema's battle with fistula unveils the tragedy of early marriage, urging society to confront the intertwined dangers of ...