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and often leads to chronic medical problems, depression, social isolation and deepening poverty. Ninety percent of pregnancies involving fistula end in stillbirth. The global landscape of maternal ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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