The Executive Director of the Association for Rehabilitation and Orientation of Women for Development (TEREWODE) Alice Sseruyange is worried about the way Gender based violence is now contributing to the high risk of Fistula disease among women in the country.

Sseruyange says this happens in a way that young girls who are mostly defiled are forced by their parents into teenage and early marriages where there not in good terms with their husbands and this affects many at the time of birth.

Other causes of fistula though may include delayed attention and help to pregnant women at the time of birth.

She further notes the need to sensitize men on the dangers of Gender based violence to the reproductive health of the mothers as this may help to control the practice among men.