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Q&A with Kate Grant: Helping Women with Fistulas

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The stories are heartbreaking - pregnant women in remote rural areas in Asia enduring a long or often difficult labor, some losing their babies. The women are left with incontinence and leaking wastes from obstetric fistulas. Some husbands abandon their wives, while others try to find help, but the road is long and the women are often ostracized by their communities for these birth injuries. However, the Fistula Foundation is one of the groups that have been supporting women,...

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