Africa Rise and Shine

Zimbabwe women continue face barriers accessing public health facilities


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Pregnant women and girls in Zimbabwe face barriers accessing public health facilities and risk life changing child-birth related injuries, including obstetric fistula.

This is according to a new report released by the rights group Amnesty International.

The report, "I never thought I could get healed from this", lays bare the physical and psychological trauma that women and girls who experience obstetric fistula in the country go through.

For more on these findings, Khumbelo Munzhelele spoke Amnesty International's campaigner for Southern Africa, Vongai Chikwanda...
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