In my community, when a baby is born, we say “makorokoto, mapona, congratulations”, you survived. These words, while celebratory, echo a painful reality for many women in Zimbabwe. Childbirth remains ...

The Médecins Sans Frontières, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has conducted free Vesicovaginal Fistula (VVF) surgeries to 4,931 patients at Jahun VVF center in Jigawa from 2008 to date.This was ...

More than 12,000 Ghanaian women currently live with obstetric fistula (OF) due to the country’s limited surgical capacity to ...

After healing, Acayarach conceived and delivered another baby through C-section. During the national commemoration of End Fistula in 2023 in Zombo district, Acayarach together with other survivors ...

Health officials in South Sudan are warning of a rise in obstetric fistula cases, blaming delayed access to maternal care and ...

"The biggest cause of obstetric fistula is obstructed labour where the mother has been in labour for too long, and the baby's head becomes impacted," she explains. "Proper monitoring during labour ...

Your baby will get general anesthesia during surgery ... repeated chest infections when they are young. Tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) is a serious condition that mostly affects newborn babies.

THE detection of a continuous murmur with systolic accentuation is of the highest significance in the diagnosis and in the location of the site of an arteriovenous fistula. It is therefore ...