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Fistula
A fistula is simply a hole. An obstetric fistula of the kind that occurs in Ethiopia and many other developing countries is a hole between a woman’s birth passage and one or more of her internal organs. This hole develops over many days of obstructed labor, when the pressure of the baby’s head against the mother’s pelvis cuts off blood supply to delicate tissues in the region. The dead tissue falls away and the woman is left with a hole between her vagina and her bladder (called a vesicovaginal fistula or VVF) and sometimes between her vagina and rectum (rectovaginal fistula, RVF), resulting in permanent incontinence. Most women who develop fistulas are abandoned by their husbands and ostracized by their communities because of their inability to have children and their foul smell.

Fistula Hospital
Campaign to end fistula