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

Greenwich women create nonprofit that aims to empower oppressed women, and move the apostrophe to turn Mother's Day into ...

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 ...

While she’s doing that, Grey’s Anatomy also does a nice job of reminding us how insanely disproportionate the maternal ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Despite Uganda registering about 1,900 new cases of obstetric fistula every year, the Ministry of Health says there is still a shortage of experts to perform surgeries to correct the damage.

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

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 ...