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It is known as the disease of the poor, yet fistula, which affects up to 7,000 women in Kenya annually, is easily treatable. Our writer KWAMBOKA OYARO, examines its impact
She timidly, almost inaudibly, says she is 18 even though she looks much younger. The girl gives the game away when she says she was born in 1998; which would make her 15. Her story begins to emerge . . . at 14, she was married off to a 37-year-old man in Migori County.
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