Uganda - Campaign to End Fistula

viiiThere exists great potential for collaboration and coordination through the Ministry ofHealth, of all development partners, non-governmental organizations and womenactivists. Many aspects of fistula need to be researched to bring more understanding ofthe problem.The women who suffer this diverstating condition are of low educational standards andfrom poor socio-economic groups. Programmes which enhance “girl child” educationand economic empowerment of women and communities will go along way in mitigatingthe problem. This will reduce rejection and misery which these women have to undergoin society.Finally, in order to maintain morale among the trained professionals the health carefacilities should be provided with adequate equipment and supplies specific for VVF carewithout neglecting motivation of staff.Averting future cases of VVF depends on treating the present ones well, sustainedinvestment in low level health facilities in the communities, so that there exists efficientand affordable or even free health care. It is important for Uganda to have accurateinformation on critical health problems through well supervised data collection at alllevels, especially for VVF, currently not captured in the National Data.