Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation within a generation: what worked and what next?

Oto Buraimo and Olatunji Sonoiki
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Olatunji Sonoiki: Brymore Public Health, Nigeria

Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine, 2018, vol. 4, issue 4, 53-57

Abstract: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) involves the non-therapeutic partial or complete removal of external female genitalia for non-medical reasons but largely due to cultural, religious and social reasons. Besides the obvious physical agony experienced by women subjected to FGM/C, the practice of FGM/C is still endemic in about 29 countries in Africa, Asia and Middle East, and worldwide due to international migration. Over 200 million are affected, 3 million girls and women stand the risk of undergoing FGM/C annually and more recent statistics show that 15 million girls are at risk of undergoing FGM/C by 2020 in the absence of apt intervention.

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Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.19080/GJORM.2018.04.555641

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