Fistula surgery recovery takes time. After this type of outpatient surgery, a person will need rest before they can return to their usual activities. While a fistula can happen anywhere in the body, ...

Not only does their baby most likely die, the fistula will cause incontinence problems with continuous dribbling urine or foul smelling gas and stool. This medical problem cannot be solved without a ...

October 16, 2008 (San Francisco, California) — A novel sphincter-sparing surgical technique for the repair of perianal fistulas has demonstrated a 58% success rate in an American patient population.

Over 12,000 Fistula cases are recorded yearly. Many are wrongly repaired, leaving the patients in a lifelong trauma. But the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through its ...

Fistula is common in Somalia but stigma and lack of care means that many women continue to face shame and barriers to treatment. Clotilde Bigot reports.

Dr Paul Mitei Obstetricians Gynaecologist at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral hospital in Kisumu.Foryears, SA learned to live carefully, planning her days around uncertainty,limiting her ...

VVF survivors in Kaduna. Picture credit: Supreme Magazine. Closing the fistula is only the first step. Without economic empowerment, social reintegration, and community acceptance, many survivors ...

Victoria Ifeanyichukwu, a mother of two from Imo State, arrived at the National Obstetric Fistula Centre (NOFIC) in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, seeking care after a difficult first pregnancy left her ...

Each afternoon—after neighbors in her village compound in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, in Nigeria’s coastal region, had gone out for the day—Imaobong Dickson would sneak out of her home to wash pieces of ...