Community awareness about risk factors, presentation and prevention and obstetric fistula in Nabitovu village, Iganga district, Uganda.

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Published in BMC Pregnancy Childbirth on December 10, 2013

Authors

Nassar Kasamba, Dan K Kaye1, Scovia N Mbalinda

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, P,O, Box 7072, Kampala, Uganda. dankkaye@yahoo.com.

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