Liberia, June 11 -- For fourteen years, S. said she woke up every morning to wet and smelly sheets. She had no name for what was wrong with her. She had no doctor to visit, no clinic that could help. All she had was shame - and silence.

It started with a difficult birth in 2011. After an agonizing labor that she thought might kill her, the baby did not survive. When S. came home, something inside her had broken. She was leaking urine - constantly, uncontrollably - and she did not know why.

"I woke up and saw my bed cover with urine," S. said. "I did not know what was wrong with me. That was the beginning of my nightmare."

She was forced to wear rags all day every day to catch the urine. There was no hiding the smell. The now 42-yea...