Rwandan government, UNFPA step up campaign to end obstetric fistula

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the World Food Program and Engender Health have partnered with Rwanda's Ministry of Health in "a campaign to treat and end obstetric fistula in women in Rwanda," the New Times/AllAfrica.com reports. Through the campaign, "at least 50 women are expected to be treated by Issa Labou, a urologist from Senegal, assisted by a team of Rwandan physicians during an exercise to be held at Kibogora Hospital, Nyamasheke District, Western Province from 10-21 October," according to Anicet Nzabonimpa, the family planning and HIV integration coordinator in Rwanda's Ministry of Health, the newspaper writes. "We commit to supporting government's efforts to fully integrate services that are permanent for on-going, continuous and holistic care of obstetric fistula cases until we entirely end this preventable and treatable condition,' she said," according to the New Times (10/9).