When Faisa Idow went into labour with her first child, she sensed something was terribly wrong. The 23-year-old from a rural village in Somalia's Bay region endured several agonising days of ...

A rectovaginal fistula develops when an abnormal tunnel forms between the vagina and rectum inside a woman’s body. This opening allows waste material and gas to pass from the rectum into the vagina, ...

An estimated 200,000 women in Uganda are living with obstetric fistula, a devastating childbirth injury that continues to affect mainly teenage mothers, a top health official said during World Fistula ...

The United Nations Population Fund and local health authorities have launched an initiative offering free obstetric fistula surgeries at five major hospitals in Ghana. Over 200,000 Ghanaian women ...

An anal fistula is a tunnel that develops from the inside of the anus to the skin outside. It usually starts near blocked or infected anal glands and forms an abscess (a pus-filled pocket). Pus and ...

AVB-114 consists of stem cells taken from a patient’s fat tissue seeded into a bioabsorbable plug that is inserted into the patient’s fistula. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast ...

If you’re living with advanced kidney disease, preparing for dialysis can feel overwhelming. One crucial decision is how your blood will be accessed for treatment. While there are different options, ...

THE Batang Lassa Bridge in Sibu will be opened to the public tomorrow. Sarawak Deputy Premier Datuk Douglas Uggah Embas is expected to complete the soft launch for the bridge that had faced delays due ...

Opinion Columnist, reporting from Nairobi, Kenya. One of the most dangerous things a woman can do in much of the world is become pregnant, and the risks caught up with a Kenyan named Alice Wanjiru a ...

What Is an Anal Fistula? An anal fistula is an abnormal tunnel that forms between the inside of the anus (the hole at the end of your digestive tract through which solid waste leaves the body) and the ...

The Nigerian government, through the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, has inaugurated a comprehensive obstetric fistula care program to address over 400,000 backlog cases in the country.

How a team of nurses from the UK and Uganda introduced a training package to care for women undergoing obstetric fistula surgery. Abstract Obstetric fistula is a condition with severe personal and ...