About 158,000 Nigerian women are living with VVF disease with every 30,000 cases added yearly.
Nigeria account for 40% of Vesicovaginal fistula VVF worldwide and about 158,000 Nigerian women are living with the disease.
VVF is a hole in the bladder through the vagina that allows uncontrollable leakage of urine to the outside through the vagina.
You need to see someone suffering from VVF to really understand the gravity of this disease, the stigma, the smell, the pain and the isolation: VVF is caused mainly by difficult or prolonged obstructed labour; the impacted fetal head presses the vagina and bladder wall against the pubic bone.
