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

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  • Oto Buraimo
  • Olatunji Sonoiki

    (Brymore Public Health, Nigeria
    World Food Programme, Nigeria)

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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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  • Oto Buraimo & Olatunji Sonoiki, 2018. "Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation within a generation: what worked and what next?," Global Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Juniper Publishers Inc., vol. 4(4), pages 53-57, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:adp:jgjorm:v:4:y:2018:i:4:p:53-57
    DOI: 10.19080/GJORM.2018.04.555641
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    1. Rigmor C Berg & Eva Denison, 2012. "Interventions to reduce the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting in African countries," Campbell Systematic Reviews, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 8(1), pages 1-155.
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