Absence and reliance: Liberian women's experience of vaginal fistula

Travel notes: a Liberian medical experience.

The delivery of even the simplest form of health care has three prerequisites: a population to whom the health care can be delivered, a knowledge of the type of care to deliver, and a means of delivery. In a developing country the "who," "what," and "how" are closely related. Health can no longer be conveniently defined as the mere absense of disease. Just as important as the physical state of ...

Vesico-Vaginal Fistula

The Vesico-vaginal Fistula

TREATMENT OF COMMON ACUTE POISONING. By Henry Matthew and A. A. H. Lawson. (Pp. vii+ 151. 16s). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1967. THIS concise well indexed book should be in the hands of all casualty officers. It is written by two general physicians who have had extensive experience of the treatment of acute poisoning at the Poisoning Treatment Centre at the Edinburgh Royal Infir...

Vesico-Vaginal Fistula

Key to successful vesico-vaginal fistula repair--an experience of urogenital fistula surgeries and outcome at gynaecological surgical camp-2005.

BACKGROUND Vesico-vaginal fistula is not life threatening medical problem, but the woman face demoralization, social boycott and even divorce and separation. The aetiology of the condition has been changed over the years and in developed countries obstetrical fistula are rare and they are usually result of gynaecological surgeries or radiotherapy. Urogenital fistula surgery doesn't require spec...