Let us all help to wipe out fistula

Today is the International Day to End Obsteric Fistula. Significant gains have been made in improving sexual and reproductive health and advancing reproductive rights since the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development.

But many people, especially the poor and vulnerable, still lack access to quality sexual and reproductive health services, including life-saving emergency obstetric care. Women and girls living with fistula are among the most marginalised and neglected, and the persistence of fistula is a grave illustration of serious inequalities and the denial of rights and dignity.