Location: Buya Community, Kpandai District, Northern Region

The theme for this year's event, "Tracking Fistula – Transforming Lives," reflects an important step forward in eradicating this preventable condition, which affects an estimated two million women and girls in developing countries.

Obstetric fistula highlights persistent global inequalities in access to health care and basic human rights. Most women who develop fistula – a hole in the birth canal usually caused by prolonged, obstructed labour – remain untreated for their entire lives, and the condition can easily recur in women and girls whose fistula has been surgically treated but who receive little or no medical follow-up and then become pregnant again. 

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