ACQUIRE Fistula Support Program

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ACQUIRE Fistula Support Program
Photography by Lucy Wilson
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Fistula

• A tear between the vagina and the urethra and/or
  rectum that causes uncontrollable leakage of
  urine and/or feces.

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How an obstetric fistula forms
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• Fistula can also be caused by violent rape.
• Accounts of TRAUMATIC GYNECOLOGIC FISTULA have
  been reported in Chad, DRC, Guinea, Liberia,
  Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sudan and northern Uganda

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Why does fistula occur?

• Poverty
• Poor nutrition
• Early marriage and pregnancy
• Low use and poor quality of health care services

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What happens to these women?

• Dual social stigma
• Rejection by husband society
• Shame leads to disempowerment loss of
  self-esteem, sometimes suicide
• Hardships of condition

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What is ACQUIRE doing?

• Global coordination of USAIDs fistula repair and
  prevention programs in
• Bangladesh
• DRC
• Ethiopia
• Ghana
• Guinea
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Sierra Leone
• Uganda
• East and West Africa Region

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Spotlight on Guinea
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ALL
these women
suffer from
FISTULA.
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Access to Repair Services
Provider Skills
Sustainable Capacity
Fistula Repair Prevention
Community Awareness
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Conakry 79 Operated
Kissidougou 120 Operated
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Conakry 57 Healed
Kissidougou 88 Healed
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Mouima Koundouno
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Koumba Camara
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Odia Camara
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