This debilitating childbirth injury, often resulting from prolonged and obstructed labour, leaves women in excruciating pain ...

Uganda has made giant strides in ending Obstetric Fistula with now 1,500 new cases annually, as compared to 3,000 new cases ...

For five years now, Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital in Soroti district has been at the helm of offering specialized ...

Each year, no fewer than 50,000-100,000 women sustain an obstetric fistula in the act of birthing new life.The condition, according to the United Nations Population Fund, is the most devastating of ...

Studies related to fistula were identified through searches of the electronic databases MEDLINE, Popline, Sociological Abstracts, and PubMed, as well as searches for on-line, Web-based documents ...

Secondary analysis of the pivotal ADVENT trial showed that PFA with the Farawave device was actually superior in one respect ...

All government, non-government organizations, development partners and donor agencies should scale up their efforts to ...

Obstructed labour can happen to any woman, regardless of geographical location. However, it is only in the developing world ...

Obstetric fistula is a hole between the birth canal and bladder or rectum, caused by prolonged, obstructed labour without access to timely, high-quality medical treatment. It leaves women and ...

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

Fistula prevention involves strategies to educate communities about the cultural, social, and physiologic factors that increase the risk for fistula. On the basis of physiologic immaturity ...