Dr Kathomi Gatwiri is an award-winning researcher and teacher. She is based at Southern Cross University on the Gold Coast Queensland where she teaches in the School of Arts and Social Science across a range of subjects. She completed her PhD with a thesis (and subsequent book) on ‘African womanhood, health, sexuality and incontinent bodies: A case of Kenyan Women living with vaginal fistula’. She has a Master of counselling and psychotherapy, and a Bachelor of Social Work with first class honours. 

Kathomi talks with Sally Jackson about her work in Kenya raising awareness of the effects of vaginal fistula and the Counting Dead Women Kenya Project which she co-founded. This interview contains graphic descriptions of both.

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