Stigma, Rejection: Inside the lives of Nigerian women suffering vesicovaginal fistula (VVF)

Maryam Abubakar had been in labour for days. She had endured the pains but there was no childbirth facility in her neighbourhood.

The 26-year-old mother of two dreaded the interstate trip to a health facility because it would intensify her pain.

But as her condition became more desperate, she finally accepted to embark on the 70-kilometre trip from her hometown, Nguru in Yobe State, to Hadejia in Jigawa State.

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