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Foreword
Hon. Edna Adan Ismail
Acknowledgements
Part I. Obstetric Fistula
Chapter 1. Introduction to Obstetric Fistula: A Multidisciplinary Approach to a Preventable Childbirth Tragedy
Bonnie Ruder, Laura Briggs Drew, and David A. Schwartz
Chapter 2. A Human Rights Approach Toward Eradicating Obstetric Fistula: Expanding Data Collection, Prevention, Treatment, and Continuing Support for Women and Girls Who Have Been Neglected
Laura Briggs Drew
Chapter 3. Archaeological Basis for Obstetrical Fistula: A Condition that Is as Ancient as Human Themselves
David A. Schwartz
Chapter 4. Obstetric Fistula in Context
L. Lewis Wall
Chapter 5. Co-occurrence of Obstetric Fistula and Stillbirth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Karen D. Cowgill
Chapter 6. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Africa: Public Health, Sociological and Medical Perspectives
Tina Lavender, Sabina Wakasiaka and Weston Khisa
Chapter 7. Women Who Lose Their Lives While Giving Life: Exploring Obstetric Fistula as a Public Health Problem in Kenya
Kathomi Gatwiri
Part II: Perspectives and Experiences from Women and Girls with Obstetric Fistula
Chapter 8. Obstetric Fistula: A Case of Miscommunication – Social Experiences of Women with Obstetric Fistula
Marielle E. Meurice, Saifuddin Ahmed, and René Génadry
Chapter 9. The Experience of Childbirth and Obstetric Fistula: Perspectives of Women in Northern Ghana
F. Beryl Pilkington, Prudence Mwini-Nyaledzigbor, and Alice Abokai Agana
Chapter 10. The Experiences of Women Living with Obstetric Fistula in Burkina Faso: From Delivery to Social Reinsertion
Marie-Eve Paré, Julie Désalliers, Laurence Bernard, Salam Kouraogo, and Jacques Corcos
Chapter 11. Girls’ and Women’s Social Experiences with Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania: A Public Health Problem
Stella Masala Mpanda and Lilian Teddy Mselle
Chapter 12. Physical, Psychological and Social Assessments of Fistula Recovery Among Women in Nigeria and Uganda
Beth S. Phillips, Justus K. Barageine, Dorothy N. Ononokpono, and Alison M. El Ayadi
Chapter 13. Socioeconomic and Healthcare Causes of Obstetric Fistula in Tanzania: Perspectives from the Affected Women
Lilian Teddy Mselle and Stella Masala Mpanda
Chapter 14. Health-Seeking Behavior Among Women with Obstetric Fistula in Ethiopia
Jordann Loehr, Heather Lytle, and Mulat Adefris
Part III. Fistula Treatment, Management, and Models of Care
Chapter 15. Classification of Female Genital Tract Fistulas
Judith T. Goh and Hannah G. Krause
Chapter 16. Surgical Treatment for Obstetric Fistula: Not an Easy Option
Andrew Browning
Chapter 17. Obstetric Vesicovaginal Fistula: Development of a Predictive Score of Failed Surgical Repair
Joseph B. Nsambi, Olivier Mukuku, Propser L. Kakudji, Jean-Baptiste S.Z. Kakoma
Chapter 18. Training and Capacity-Building in the Provision of Fistula Treatment Services: The FIGO Fistula Surgery Training Initiative
Gillian Slinger and Lilli Trautvetter
Chapter 19. Medical and Surgical Challenges and Opportunities for Treatment at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre in Sierra Leone
Ennet Banda Chipungu
Chapter 20. Comparing Three Models of Fistula Care Among Five Facilities in Nigeria and Uganda
Pooja Sripad, Caroline Johnson, Vandana Tripathi, and Charlotte E. Warren
Chapter 21. Obstetric Fistula in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Neglected Care of Young Women in Rural Areas
Joseph B. Nsambi, Olivier Mukuku and Jean-Baptiste S.Z. Kakoma
Chapter 22. Therapeutic Management of Obstetric Fistula: Learning from Implementation of Insertable Devices to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Women and Girls in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Nessa Ryan and Ann E. Kurth
Chapter 23. The Aberdeen Women’s Centre: Providing Care for Girls and Women with Fistula and Other Conditions in Sierra Leone
Ivy Kalama
Part IV: Beyond Surgery—Preventing Obstetric Fistula and Addressing Its Many Consequences
Chapter 24. Height and External Measurement of Pelvic Diameters to Predict Obstetric Fistula in Congolese Women: A Case-control Study
Joseph B. Nsambi, Olivier Mukuku, Xavier K. Kinenkinda, Propser L. Kakudji, Robert Andrianne, Jean-Baptiste S.Z. Kakoma
Chapter 25. Designing Preventive Strategies for Obstetric Fistula: Evidence from a Survey Conducted Among Rural and Urban Women in Burkina Faso
Aduragbemi Banke-Thomas
Chapter 26. Sexual Function in Women with Obstetric Fistula
Rachel Pope
Chapter 27. Social and Reproductive Health of Women After Obstetric Fistula Repair: Insights from Guinea
Alexandre Delamou
Chapter 28. Urinary Incontinence Following Obstetric Fistula Surgery
Hannah G. Krause and Judith T. Goh
Chapter 29. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Obstetric Fistula in Northern Ghana: “Not Counted Among Women”
Kimberly Jarvis, Helen Vallianatos, Solina Richter, and Priscilla N. Boakye
Chapter 30. Making the Case for Holistic Fistula Care: Implementation of a Model Reintegration Program in Uganda
Bonnie Ruder and Alice Emasu
Chapter 31. Addressing Mental Health in Obstetric Fistula Patients: Filling the Void
Meghan Beddow and Mary J. Stokes
Chapter 32. Physical Therapy for Women with Obstetric Fistula
Theresa Spitznagle
Chapter 33. Comprehensive Pelvic Floor Health: Beyond the “Hole” in the Wall
Rahel Nardos and Laura Jacobson
Bonnie Ruder, PhD, MPH, CPM holds a PhD in Applied Medical Anthropology and a Master in Public Health in International Health from Oregon State University. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Terrewode Women’s Fund, a US-based non-profit organization; a senior research consultant with the International Fistula Alliance; and sits on the Board of Governors for Terrewode Women’s Community Hospital. She conducts research on maternal health and obstetric fistula and has worked on projects in Uganda, Somalia, The Gambia, Zimbabwe and the USA. Her research focuses on obstetric fistula, residual incontinence post-fistula repair, maternal and infant health, reproductive justice, traditional birth attendants, social justice and systems of oppression, and community-engaged research. Bonnie is a licensed midwife with over 20 years’ experience, working primarily in the USA. She has also attended births in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and at a referral hospital in Soroti, Uganda. Her current research examines the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on gender and maternal health in Uganda.
David A. Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP has an educational background in Anthropology, Medicine, Emerging Infections, Maternal Health, and Medical Epidemiology & Public Health. He has professional and research interests in reproductive health, diseases of pregnancy, and maternal and infant morbidity and mortality in both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. In the field of Medicine, his subspecialties include Obstetric, Placental & Perinatal Pathology as well as Emerging Infections. An experienced author, editor, investigator and consultant, Dr. Schwartz has long experience investigating the anthropological, biomedical and epidemiologic aspects of pregnancy and its complications as they affect society, in particular among indigenous populations and when they involve emerging infections. Dr. Schwartz has been a recipient of many grants, was a Pediatric AIDS Foundation Scholar, and has organized and directed national and international projects involving maternal health, perinatal infectious diseases, and placental pathology for such agencies as the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institutes of Health, and the United States Agency for International Development, as well as for the governments of other nations. He has published 3 previous books on pregnancy-related morbidity and mortality, the first in 2015 entitled Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors, Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries and Preventive Strategies for Pregnancy-Related Deaths; a book published in 2018 entitled Maternal Death and Pregnancy-Related Morbidity Among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America: An Anthropological, Epidemiological and Biomedical Approach; and in 2019 a book entitled Pregnant in the Time of Ebola. Women and Their Children in the 2013-2015 West African Epidemic. Dr. Schwartz is the editor of the Springer book series Global Maternal and Child Health: Medical, Anthropological and Public Health Perspectives, of which this book is a volume. He has been involved with maternal, fetal and neonatal aspects of such epidemic infections as HIV, Zika and Ebola viruses, and is currently researching these issues with the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Schwartz serves on the Editorial Boards of several international journals and was formerly Clinical Professor of Pathology at the Medical College
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