“I feel myself incomplete, and I am inferior to people”: experiences of Sudanese women living with obstetric fistula in Khartoum, Sudan

Abstract Background Obstetric fistula is among the most devastating maternal morbidities that occur as a result of prolonged, obstructed labor. Usually, the child dies in a large number of the cases. Moreover, some of the women become infertile while the majority suffer physical, psychosocial and ec...

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Main Authors: Salma A. E. Ahmed, Viva C. Thorsen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:Reproductive Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-019-0846-y