Community-based screening for obstetric fistula in Nigeria: a novel approach
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Community-based screening for obstetric fistula in Nigeria: a novel approach
BACKGROUND Obstetric fistula continues to have devastating effects on the physical, social, and economic lives of thousands of women in many low-resource settings. Governments require credible estimates of the backlog of existing cases requiring care to effectively plan for the treatment of fistula cases. Our study aims to quantify the backlog of obstetric fistula cases within two states via co...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1471-2393
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-14-44