Female Genital Cutting Practices
Ritual Genital Cutting of Female Minors
... of female genital anatomy and function, as well as a thorough re- view of the lifelong physical harms and psychological suffering associ- ated with most forms of ...these practices be- cause of their ...
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Tracing change in female genital mutilation/cutting: Shifting norms and practices among communities in Narok and Kisii counties, Kenya
... and practices resulting from combined direct and indirect change efforts in Narok and Kisii ...and practices that promoted continuation of FGM/C were noted across the two ...of cutting and less ...
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Female genital mutilation/cutting: changes and trends in knowledge, attitudes, and practices among health care professionals in The Gambia
... on female HCPs opposing it but, at the same time, performing FGM/C as health personnel, suggest they are dealing with a certain degree of pressure from families demanding the practice to be performed on ...
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Female genital cutting (FGC) and the ethics of care: community engagement and cultural sensitivity at the interface of migration experiences
... In order to be non-judgmental and ethical, to avoid fur- ther marginalization of newcomer women, SERC’s providers had to reflect upon their own feelings and reactions as well as beliefs and values, recognise them and ...
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Mismatch between Interventionists’ Messages and Local Reality of Female Genital Cutting in a Kurya Society - Northern Tanzania
... to genital cutting observed in the field was public celebrations of the ...Although female genital cutting is illegal in Tanzania, the celebrations were so apparent as they took place ...
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Health sector involvement in the management of female genital mutilation/cutting in 30 countries
... involvement of the health sector in the management of FGM/C: First there is a need to strengthen systematic training of HCP, particularly in countries of migration. Secondly, the role of HCP in averting and reporting ...
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: sharing data and experiences to accelerate eradication and improve care: part 2
... Health professionals have a critical role to play in the prevention and management of FGM. However, several KAP (Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices) studies conducted in high and low income countries have shown a ...
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Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting across Africa: Dynamics of Change and Socioeconomic Variation
... Finally, we show how cross-national variation in socioeconomic differentials change over time. In the past, differentials were smallest in countries where the majority of the population practice FGM/C, and were largest ...
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Article: Awareness and practice of female genital mutilation/cutting in a semi-urban community in southwest Nigeria
... Skilled workers were more likely to have had FGM/C. Skilled workers were likely to occupy the highest wealth quintile in their communities. This group has been found from studies in Nigeria to practice FGM/C less than ...
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Female genital mutilation/cutting: risk management and strategies for social workers and health care professionals
... of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) was coordinated by ...the practices and prevention strategies; for example, that the terminology and practice is an emotionally charged and ...
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Traditional values attached to Female Genital Cutting (FGC) amongst the Pokot of West Pokot, Kenya
... traditional practices which they ...and practices that are adapted to their ...to Female genital cutting among the Pokot ...about Female Genital Cutting among the ...
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Underlying Sociocultural Practices Influencing Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Kajiado County
... Amref Health Africa (https://www.amref.org/) [4] and other child protection partners working in Kajiado County have been reactive in an effort to end the practice, to reduce school dropout and early and forced marriages ...
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The lower prevalence of female genital mutilation in the Netherlands: a nationwide study in Dutch midwifery practices.
... ‘female genital mutilation’ (FGM) was introduced to emphasize the gravity and harm of the act and, more recently, the UN agencies introduced the term ‘female genital cutting’ as a less ...
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Female Genital Cutting: Fundamentals, Social Expectations and Change
... A coarse analysis of countries that practice FGC versus countries that do not practice it show that countries that practice FGC have a worse overall performance: they have a lower stage of development, worse political ...
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Challenges in the eradication of Female Genital Mutilation / Cutting
... 2005 Maputo Protocol The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol is developed. It calls upon States to take measures to eliminate ...
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Media and Community Influences on Female Genital Cutting in Egypt
... Less research has been done to show the influence of the internet on demographic behaviour, though many studies have explored the power of the internet in social change. During the 2005 elections in Egypt, blogs started ...
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Determinants of disagreement with female genital mutilation/cutting of future daughters and awareness of the ban among Egyptian university students
... Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a worldwide public health and human rights ...traditional practices involving “partial or total excision of the female external genitalia ...
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Meaning-making of female genital cutting: children’s perception and acquired knowledge of the ritual
... The confirmation phase can be defined as a continuous process of confirming and reassuring the importance of the cutting after it is performed. Once the pain has subsided and the festivities are over, newly cut ...
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Effect of female genital mutilation/cutting; types I and II on sexual function: case-controlled study
... meticulous genital examination, as self reporting of FGM/C and its different forms (used by many previous studies) is unreliable and both under- reporting and over reporting have been documented ...
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Female genital mutilation/cutting: Knowledge, practice and experiences of secondary school teachers in North Central Nigeria
... schools, while 46 women (17.8%) and 23 men (20.4%) had previously educated students about FGM/C. Also, 109 (42.3%) of the female teachers had been mutilated (mean (standard deviation) age 4.76 (4.86) years), and ...
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