TY - JOUR AU - Sripad, Pooja AU - Arnoff, Elly AU - Warren, Charlotte AU - Tripathi, Vandana PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/07 TI - Measuring barriers to fistula care: investigating composite measures for targeted fistula programming in Nigeria and Uganda JO - BMC Women's Health SP - 142 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Accessing surgical repair poses challenges to women living with female genital fistula who experience intersectional vulnerabilities including poverty, gender, stigma and geography. Barriers to fistula care have been described qualitatively in several low- and middle-income countries, but limited effort has been made to quantify these factors. This study aimed to develop and validate composite measures to assess barriers to accessing fistula repair in Nigeria and Uganda. SN - 1472-6874 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-021-01288-3 DO - 10.1186/s12905-021-01288-3 ID - Sripad2021 ER -