Fistula

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Scarred by childbirth, mothers are finding help to heal and start over

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Hundreds of thousands of women in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a complication that leaves them incontinent and often shamed after childbirth. But there’s help for women to heal both physically and emotionally — and it’s working for one mother in Malawi.Hundreds of thousands of women in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a complication that leaves them incontinent and often shamed after childbirth. But there’s help for women to heal both physically and emotionally — and it’s working for one mother in Malawi.

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Treating fistula in Ethiopia

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