female genital mutilation
Female genital mutilation and behavioral aversion of HIV/AIDS testing in West Africa
... Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a traditional practice related to certain cultural groups. This practice is deeply rooted in geography, history, and the customs of many countries around the world. ...
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Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Female Genital Mutilation or Cutting in Girls
... Female genital mutilation or cutting (FGM/C) involves medically unnecessary cutting of parts or all of the external female ...external female genitalia at all health supervision ...
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Management of painful clitoral neuroma after female genital mutilation/cutting
... [1]. Genital traumatic neur- omas are rare; only one study with 17 cases of traumatic neuromas of the penis and several penile and clitoral case reports are available in the literature, and these are mainly ...
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Mapping the lack of public initiative against female genital mutilation in Denmark
... Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful practice prevalent in 35 countries, mainly in Africa, as well as in some Middle Eastern countries and a few Asian coun- tries ...“Female ...
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Health consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting in the Gambia, evidence into action
... “ Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting ” (FGM/C) refers to all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital ...
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Socio-Cultural Barriers Against The Prevention Of Female Genital Mutilation
... Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) describes the partial or total removal of the external genitalia of the girl child for non- therapeutic reasons (WHO, ...as female genital cutting or ...
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Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast
... Female genital mutilation (FGM) – defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) agencies as “ the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or ...
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FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: A GROTESQUE FORM OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
... of female genital circumcision and when female genital mutilation started is not very clear, existing documents and Greek historians and geographers, such as Herodotus (425-23 AD) show ...
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Female Genital Mutilation
... of female infants, girls, and adolescents, referred to as female genital mutilation (FGM), persists primarily in Africa and among certain communities in the Middle East and ...ritual ...
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Female genital mutilation of a karyotypic male presenting as a female with delayed puberty
... Based on the amount of tissue removed, Toubia has clas- sified FGM into four main types: Type I, which is known in Sudan as "sunna", represents the excision of a part or the entire clitoris. Type II involves ...
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Female Genital Mutilation in Egypt (Compared to Burkina Faso)
... In 2008, the Egyptian Parliament criminalized FGM/C through Article 242 of the Egyptian Constitution. 2 Through further amendments, the new article 242 added to the Penal Law, by virtue of the Child Law no. 12 of 1996 ...
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Community Awareness and Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in Ikungi District, Tanzania
... Female genital mutilation is a deeply rooted tradition in many countries, in- cluding in some Tanzanian communities despite the various advocacy and legal interventions to stop ...of female ...
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Mandatory reporting of female genital mutilation in children in the UK
... Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) also referred to as 'cutting' (WHO 2012) has become an area of increasing concern in the UK and other developed countries due to migration, particularly from ...
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Female Genital Mutilation in the United States: Estimating the Number of Girls at Risk
... Female genital mutilation (FGM) destroys the capacity of women to experience sexual pleasure. It causes serious medical complications such as bleeding, painful urination, cysts, dangerous and ...
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Qualitative evaluation of the Saleema campaign to eliminate female genital mutilation and cutting in Sudan
... Female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C, herein FGM) is a widespread and harmful practice. The Government developed a national campaign in Sudan, called Saleema, to change social norms ...
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Preventing female genital mutilation in high income countries: a systematic review of the evidence
... Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a cultural practice that is associated with poor health outcomes. The migra- tion of women and girls with FGM to countries such as the United Kingdom, the United ...
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The Mayor’s office for policing and crime female genital mutilation early intervention model
... that female genital mutilation came to replace ‘female circumcision’ as a term which could convey the damage done to ...‘female genital cutting’, arguing that FGM, ‘was intended ...
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An exploration of the psychological and emotional needs of pregnant women with female genital mutilation
... Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) describes the procedures involving injury to or partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, classified from Type I through to Type IV (WHO, ...
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Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in England and Wales: National and local estimates
... the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003, it is a criminal offence for a United Kingdom national or a permanent United Kingdom resident to excise, infibulate or otherwise mutilate the whole or any part ...
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A Statistical Study to Estimate the Prevalence of Female Genital Mutilation in England and Wales
... Because of the concern about FGM, the UK Prohibition of “Female Circumcision” Act came into force in 1985. The Act made it an offence to carry out or to aid, abet or procure the performance by another person, of ...
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