Kenyatta National Hospital, East Africa’s largest referral hospital alone receives 400 cases annually of Obstetric fistula, which is known to be the most devastating of all pregnancy related injuries. Here we met, 32 year old Purity Kageni, one of the thousands who suffered for eleven years from Obstetric fistula. Prolonged labor is one of the …Read More

For six years running, AMREF in partnership with KNH have been conducting National-wide VVF camps lasting two weeks.  This year’s camp was held on 10th to 26th June 2011 following media sensitization campaigns in the month preceding the camp and a VVF walk held on 10th June 2011. As is the case in the previous …Read More

Owing to a high prevalence of obstetric fistula in the region, Garissa Provincial Referral Hospital is among the oldest AMREF Obstetric Fistula (OF) partnering site. The region is also among the safe motherhood project site supported by DANIDA for the last three years. The gynaecologist in this site (Dr Elly Odongo) has been doing on-the-job-training …Read More