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Africa: Time to Take Up the Fight Against Fistula

Hundreds of thousands of women suffer fistula in solitude and shame, and the United Nations Population Fund estimates that more than two million women live with it in the developing world.
UNMIL

An operation to correct Fistula.

  • Malawi:   Time to Take Up the Fight Against Fistula

    Gender Links, 26 October 2010

    "I fell asleep at night on wet bedding. During the day my family and the community made me a laughing stock as I was leaking urine and spreading a bad smell. I stopped leaving the… Read more »

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