Stigmatized and depressed, fistula women appeal for free gov’t treatment

Katakwi, Uganda | URN | Women in Katakwi district have raised concern of health threatening complications of Fistula that severely  affected many women who become socially stigmatized, depressed, suffer chronic pain and isolation. A vaginal fistula is an abnormal opening between the vagina and another organ (bladder, colon, or rectum), causing symptoms like involuntary leakage of urine or feces, … The post Stigmatized and depressed, fistula women appeal for free gov’t treatment appeared first on The Independent Uganda: .

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