Battle, Gamba – On the outside of Banjul, afternoon in the afternoon of March, only a woman, known as Safe*, has placed a basket of plants from her garden. While moving immediately to prevent the eyes of the eyes, it has gone to a hidden place, where the raw, non -processed tobacco leaves are thick, waiting to be replaced in the tab.
Suddenly, her phone sounds. A customer. She is consciously laughing. “She is one of my choices because she is coming back,” SAF says, whose name is a code word that means “sweet” in Volof.
The 68 -year -old Tabo seller says that secrecy is important, which for decades made women and sold it differently.
Tobacco, in the local mind Powder for tobacco is used for generations for generations for generations, smoking, snoofing and chewing. But in recent years, modified by adding other substances to tobacco powder has been used for various reasons.
Vendors like SAF take regular tabs and mix in powerful chemicals to increase their drug effects. Then many women use these intravaginals, believing that sexual pleasure is enhanced.
In the meantime, some traditional treatments, including others, insist that its intravenous use has medicinal properties – from genital infections and treatment of headache to the treatment of epilepsy, hypertension and infertility – although these are medically unpleasant.
Although the tabernacle is not illegal, health officials, doctors and activists in Gambia warn the dangers and caution against its use. But many women are looking for it.
For Fatmata*, 36, “Taba does miracle.”
Married for a decade, the husband of Fatamata left for Europe for only three years at his wedding. In his absence, a close friend introduced her to the tab.
She said, “For religious reasons, I do not want to take extra married things, so I adopt a tab,” she says shy.
‘The worst mistake of my life’
For others, its results are less favorable.
For the first time, a rose*, 28, after a friend suggested that she tried, she used the tab, before the violent vomiting, she felt a huge feeling of dizziness and nausea. She continued to try, but at the third thirty, she used it, she says she almost lost her life.
She said, “I remember the burning sensation, the wonderful pain and the reaction to my body as I had a fire” I just breathed and I thought I was going to die. “
The pain was intense but compact, she says. After that, she fell asleep, and when she woke up, there was an unhealthy pain in her leg. But the government warned that she would be exposed to the Taba user at a time, fearing that she did not get medical help. They.
After her testShe promised to touch the tabla again.
“It is dangerous and women have to stop inserting it in their genitals before they are late,” she warns.
Taraba*, 28, and Isetu*, 42, started using the tab to pay attention to the health problem.
“Taba has damaged my system,” Taraba says, who initially took it in an attempt to heal Gonoria.
“First, I just used it for that purpose.
Whatever happened then it was amazing. “I felt like a fire burned inside me and my whole body (temporarily) got paralyzed.” Unlike roses, whose pain was brief, it lasts all week long.
Isatu first used it as a remedy for Gonoria. “I heard about this powder three years ago from a colleague from.
But when Isautu tried, “I almost died.”
Both Taraba or Isetu selected them instead of suffering their pain in peace. Isatu says that she has been hit by experience.
Regular user fatmat, insists that Taba does not have any harmful effects on her health and most women claim that they use it without any complaint.
Taba seller Safe Agree, saying that most of her customers have been buying from her for years. “If they are harmful, they will not come back.”
‘Intral Fat’
According to Pear-looking journal, tobacco control, there is little information about the health impact of intravenous tabs. But “negative health is likely to affect” what is known about the use of tobacco without other smoking, said the authors of the 223 paper on the tab.
“Intraventive is harmful,” said Gaiologist at General Hospital. Powered by Blogger.
“It causes irritation, infection, vivid sensation, itching, odor-odor discharge and bleeding during intercourse,” he tells Al Jaizira.
Dr. Suware warned that the tabla is carcinogen and they say that research is required to see if it can cause cervical and vaginal cancer. During pregnancy, nicotine and other unknown substances may increase the risk of premature labor, restrictions on fetal growth and the risk of stable birth.
“The Taba vagina disrupts the PH, which makes women more insecure to STIs like Gonorrhea, Siplis and HIV.
Gambia’s Health Ministry has spoken about the possible health risk of using Taba intravagnelli and is careful that it can increase the risk of cancer or life -threatening complications at the birth of a child. Some women use workers in an attempt to relieve pain, but medical experts warned that it can cause serious damage instead.
The ministry has used social media to educate the people about risk and in a video that went viral, Health Minister Lamin Summit was seen addressing a rally. To warn of its harmful effects in the local language.
In the first video that was first emerged online in the 5th, Minister Samat said, “Taba is dangerous and women should reject it.”
Women’s Rights Association is also increasing awareness of the harmful effects of the tabla.
Program Officer Sariba Badji in the NGO the Girls’ agenda says, “No woman should be pressured in harmful practices like Tabas.” “Our goal is to provide knowledge and support that women need to make decisions about their health without fear or stigma.”
Human rights activist MBSC Manne has also spoken clearly about his use. But she noticed how the use of tabs in Gambian women’s communities.
She tells Al Jazira, “If you go to the names and social events, you will find women selling tabla.” “Many of these women are not sexually satisfied with their husbands, so they turn to the tab as an alternative.”
Some women speak in the code when referring to the tab. “They are called ‘Simung Cola’ A-Mandinka ‘dinner, called Manneh.
A secret action
Although no law is currently banned on the Intravagnell tab, its forbidden nature indicates the secrets surrounding it – and both vendors and buyers are working in the shadows. Taba is usually sold secretly In the market and elderly women’s circles, but it is not available in shops.
For the SAF, which runs a temporary business on the outside of Banjul near the farmland and the grazing cattle, discretion is important.
“I sell the table for a life – when people come because of a simple recommendation, I am happy,” she said with a comprehensive smile, “The word brings her new customers to her new customers.”
The location of the SAF is known only to reliable customers and the society in which she lives and works, is known as a regular plant selling gardener in the market.
She said, “They do not want my family to be completely against the sale of my (tab), but they do not want me to publicly fear of being arrested or exposed.”
In her shop, the tab is usually wrapped in paper or plastic. For 5 Dalasi (7 cents), her customers get a small pinch – enough for one use. The 15-Dalasi (21-th) part is slightly larger but still polite. Heavy users or large purchases can cost up to 500 at the same time Dalasi ($ 7). A large amount of tea can be filled with tea like what a large number of buyers get.
SAF says she leaves her raw tobacco from a supplier in Ginia-Bisawa and processes themselves and mixs with other substances to make them “more powerful”. Some claim that drugs like heroin are added.
Asked what her mixture is in the mix, she tells Al Jazir, “This is a secret recipe.” “I never share this with anyone.”
The tabla supply chain is extended beyond Gambia. Tobacco traders like Psycho Camera from both Ginia-Bisa and Cassamons to the south of the country. They have insisted that taba products should not be used in the wrong way.
He says, “I have heard that women are using other reasons, but that doesn’t mean,” he says. “I don’t believe it heals back pain or enhances sexual pleasure.
However, vendors believe in unpleasant health benefits of their product.
In the most busy market in Banjul, the 75 -year -old seller insists on the medicinal properties of the tab, which heals the wounds, causes back pain and headache.
At her working stall, a woman living in the business for decades also works openly but also secretly.
At an unsubscribed eye, she is another seller who sells cooking materials. But in a clay pot – which seems to be left at first glance – that is. Each transaction is fastened and calculated; She scans the surroundings before opening the jar carefully, before recovering the product and the waiting customer falls into the hands of the customer.
When she asked if she took the jar at home, she moved her head. “I leave the jar, but I go home with Tab.”
Women travel across the country to buy tabla from her.
At her stall, a customer in the rural village buy 2,000 Dalisy ($ 28) worth of tabloids. In her 50 or 60’s, she is also a seller – she buys it in large quantities, she reaches her and redevelops her village at a higher price.
The old seller says, “She will return next month.”
Government clampdown?
According to a 223 study published in the Tropical Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gambian women were users of 63.5 percent sample intravenous tobacco powder.
The study has shown that women over 40 years are more likely to use tabs than women, while women in rural areas are likely to use 5.5 times higher than urban residents.
Despite some research on the use of Taba, the Chief Medical Director of Gambia’s only teaching hospital Dr.
He tells Al Jaizira: “We do not have enough evidence to draw a definite conclusion. We will study more thoroughly and objectively to properly evaluate this problem.”
The use of normal tobacco is controlled in the country – for example, smoking is restricted to the home and in public places – the use of tobacco powder with tabs is irregular.
Dr. Bitte suggests that the initial point of addressing a tabb is tobacco control law, which is used and sold in a substance, while the Health Ministry works with NGOs to educate Gambian women about the dangers of tabs.
But even though the authorities are intentional by the authorities, women continue to demand and are happy to supply vendors.
The SAF says, “I make a lot of money from the sale of the tabla.
And what to do if the government is caught?
The seller says, “Only new ways will be found to keep us alive our business.
“Women need it.
*Names were stopped to protect the privacy.