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Women are heavily burdened by HIV in Tanzania; 690,000 women aged 15 and over are living with HIV. According to the 2011-12 Tanzania HIV/AIDS and Malaria Indicator Survey, HIV prevalence for women was 6.2%, compared to 3.8% for men. Women aged 23 - 24 were also twice as likely to be living with HIV, than men of the same age. HIV prevalence among women ranged from 1% among those aged 15 - 19 to 10% among women aged 45 - 49.
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• TITLE: Aetiology of Vesico Vaginal Fistula (VVF)—Observation in Patients Managed at CCBRT (Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania) Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. January to March 2016

  AUTHORS: Peter Majinge, Veronika Siebenkotten-Branca, Babanding Daffeh

  KEYWORDS: Obstetric Fistula, iatrogenic fistula, Vesico-Vaginal Fistula, Etiology, Cesarean Section

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vol.7 No.6, June 29, 2017

  ABSTRACT: In this manuscript the authors have studied the various causes of vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) and described etiology, clinical characteristics, and surgical outcome of VVF patients managed at CCBRT. They show that out of 155 patients 104 had surgery for VVF, 25 for stress incontinence (SI), 7 for perineal tears, 6 for recto-vaginal fistula (RVF) and 5 for other reasons, such as urethral strictures and bladder stones. They found a rate of 37 (35.58% out of 104 patients) with definitely iatrogenic fistula and therefore support the observation also made by others that there is a shift in etiology of VVF.