Female circumcision
Is Female Circumcision Driven by Culture or Poverty? Evidence from Indigenes of Ikole, Oye and Ido Osi Local Government Areas of Ekiti State, Nigeria
... for female circumcision is multifaceted and varies significantly across ...[5], circumcision is often utilized to define a woman as a member of the community, or, in other words, provides women with ...
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Female circumcision: a conflict of culture, religion vs health and rights of girl child
... The Joint UNFPA/UNICEF programmes for the abandonment of FGM or female circumcision (FC) played a pivotal role in this critical transition for the women and girls of The Gambia. Support from the joint ...
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Attitudes toward female circumcision among Somali immigrants in Oslo: a qualitative study
... Abstract: Due to its negative impact on public health, female circumcision (FC) has gained increased attention from international communities and the Norwegian public in recent decades. In 1995, the ...
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Have we made progress in Somalia after 30 years of interventions? Attitudes toward female circumcision among people in the Hargeisa district
... it. Female circum- cision is a controversial topic within Muslim circles, and the important point to note is that Islam safeguards women’s rights to sexual enjoyment and health, and if female ...
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Is It Possible to End Female Circumcision in Africa?
... Despite its prevalence, FGM/C is a subject of intense debate within Africa and abroad. Even differences in terminology re lect contrary stances. When irst described, the practice was called female ...
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Is female circumcision evolving or dissolving in Norway? A qualitative study on attitudes toward the practice among young Somalis in the Oslo area
... Abstract: Female genital mutilation or female circumcision (FC) is increasingly visible on the global health and development agenda – both as a matter of social justice and equality for women and as ...
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Female Circumcision Between Extinction and Diffusion in Red Sea State, Sudan
... Tables 1 to 9 Show the indicators of diffusion and extinction rate of female circumcision through 10 variables. The most important are indicated in table 1 that shows the ratio of circumcision in the ...
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Islamic Law and the Issue of Male and Female Circumcision
... For Doctor Al-Hadidi, there is no medical value in female circumcision, contrary to male circumcision, since the woman does not have a foreskin retaining germs.. 7 2 Do[r] ...
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African Immigrant Women in the United States: Perceptions on Female Circumcision and Policies that Outlaw the Practice
... The views of the respondents were blended with solutions that they considered feasible to improve compliance and enforcement. This included a promise as part of the anti-FC campaign in Somalia that ―the men would not ...
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Transformation of female circumcision among the Kipsigis of Bomet County: Kenya; 1945-2014
... Another aspect of FC is that it entailed the whole community. Given their social organization, the Kipsigis believe in unity. For instance, a village member in Sigor noted that that evening the candidates and their ...
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Circumcision or Mutilation - Voluntary or Forced Excision - Extricating the Ethical and Legal Issues in Female Genital Ritual
... of Female Genital Cutting in Rural Gambia: A Community-Based Survey, 6 T ROP ...depicts female genital surgeries as causing death and disease, and the large numbers of women who, voluntarily or under ...
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Ignoring Evidence of Circumcision Benefits
... for this difference is that the published results of national statistical surveys represent only coded diagnoses ob- tained from birth centers; the reported figures do not include males who are circumcised at a later ...
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Female genital mutilation and male circumcision: toward an autonomy-based ethical framework
... Of course, popular opinion has only limited value as a guide to the moral status of a given practice. It is quite pos- sible that those women who approve of FGA in their societies possess a comparatively narrow degree of ...
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Newborn Circumcision and Urinary Tract Infections
... of circumcision from the gerontological ...about circumcision with the child’s best interest in mind, but the information provided parents is inade- quate because it does not address the question of what ...
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Circumcision in Children Beyond the Neonatal Period
... cumcised after the newborn period, there are limited data concerning the proportion of uncircumcised infants who subsequently have the procedure, as well as minimal in- formation about c[r] ...
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Impact of Women Circumcision on Mental Health
... The findings of this current study were in consistence with the findings of Hermund and Shell Duncan who found that circumcised women may suffer from feeling incomplete, extreme dizziness, shattered aspirations, ...
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Postneonatal Circumcision: Population Profile
... individual preferences and objective information regard- ing circumcision to families of healthy infants during the neonatal period; by anticipating and facilitating the de- cisions surr[r] ...
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Behavior change pathways to voluntary medical male circumcision: narrative interviews with circumcision clients in Zambia
... Once men start to entertain the possibility of VMMC for themselves, the communication focus needs to shift to intention stage priorities. Programming for this stage should push men from merely contemplating the ...
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Declining Frequency of Circumcision: Implications for Changes in the Absolute Incidence and Male to Female Sex Ratio of Urinary Tract Infections in Early Infancy
... decrease in the circumcision frequency rate of our study population since the 1975 American Academy of Pediatrics Ad Hoc Task Force report. Addition-[r] ...
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Current Circumcision Practices: Canada
... circumcisions performed in the United States 30 years.. ago are also reported, by race and region.[r] ...
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