'I fell asleep at night on wet bedding. During the day my family and the community made me a laughing stock as I was leaking urine and spreading a bad smell. I stopped leaving the house. I felt alone and abandoned and humiliated, not least when my husband left to stay with his second wife.’ This is the sad testimony of Elisabeth Makhalichi, who developed a hole, called a fistula, after a difficult birth.
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