There's also no guarantee that treatment can completely solve the problem. Around 70% of such patients require at least one .

Strengthened antenatal care, improved health services and child birth attended by trained personnel is the answer, ” he said. He commended the efforts of Fistula Foundation, UNFPA, and other ...

Yet there is an inexpensive solution. Wanjiru’s problem was finally diagnosed as a fistula, and she underwent a surgery that repaired the injury and ended the incontinence. “I am healed!” ...

There’s also no guarantee that treatment can completely solve the problem ... the patient developing a perianal fistula by about 60%. (And among those children who did develop fistulas anyway ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has committed US$245,000 to support surgeries and reintegration for obstetric fistula--a childbirth injury that creates a hole between a woman's ...