Obstetric Fistula

Rahimi, Salma; Capes, Tracy; Ascher‐Walsh, Charles

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-8258-2_3

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“…The problem is exacerbated when well-meaning but misguided traditional birth attendants misadvise and/or practise traditional but medically harmful procedures on the labouring woman (Wall, 2012b). This may include exercising random cuts on their vaginas with the hope of helping the baby through the birthing canal or instructing the mothers-to-be to drink large amounts of water, which rather than aid the delivery of healthy babies overinflates their bladders, which puts pressure on neighbouring organs and leads to tears or perforations that form vaginal fistulas (Rahimi et al, 2013).…”

Section: What Are Vaginal Fistulas and How Are They Caused?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting vaginal fistulas on the international social work map: A critical perspective

Gatwiri

Fraser

2015

International Social Work

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Why should social workers care about vaginal fistulas? Why should we turn our attention to a health problem mostly experienced by materially impoverished young Black women, especially those in Africa? Using a critical perspective, which we define, we argue that vaginal fistulas are much more than a gynaecological health issue but symptomatic of the gender-, race-, class-and age-based oppressions many young Black women in the 'Third World' suffer. Affecting very few White western women but plenty of subjugated Black women forced to live in chronic poverty, and exposed to multiple levels of control from early in their lives, vaginal fistula sufferers often have little, if any, access to adequate health services. Our aim is to put vaginal fistulas on the global social work agenda. It is a call to work towards ending a problem that produces much shame and suffering for far too many women.

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Section: What Are Vaginal Fistulas and How Are They Caused?mentioning

confidence: 99%