Female Genital Mutilation

Part 2 book "Gynaecology" by authors Helen Bickerstaff and Louise C Kenny MBChB includes content: Genitourinary problems, urogynaecology and pelvic floor problems, benign conditions of the ovary and pelvis, benign conditions of the uterus, cervix and endometrium, benign conditions of the vulva and vagina, psychosexual disorders and female genital mutilation, malignant disease of the ovary, malignant disease of the uterus, premalignant and malignant disease of the lower genital tract, gynaecological surgery and therapeutics.

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This study assessed the influence of mothers and female student’s location on their attitudes towards female genital mutilation in Delta state, Nigeria: counselling implication. The design was the cross sectional descriptive survey research design.

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In the efforts to terminate Female Genital Mutilation globally, in the recent years some religious authorities have openly opposed the continued practice of Female Genital Mutilation, at least the most radical operations. The paper aims at identifying some of the interventions by the government and non-governmental organizations undertaken to reduce the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Kenya.

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Women with female genital mutilation/cutting are known to have psychological sequelae from the cutting and other traumatic experiences. However, very few studies report immediate psychological sequelae of genital reconstructive surgery in this population.

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) has been a longstanding tradition in Egypt and until recently the practice was quasi-universal. Nevertheless, there are indications that the practice has been losing support and that fewer girls are getting cut. This study analyzes the prevalence of FGM in different birth cohorts, to test whether the prevalence declined over time.

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Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) is a public health concern with negative consequences on women’s health. It is a harmful practice which is recognized in international discourses on public health as a form of genderbased violence. Women are not only victims of this, but also perpetrators.

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Female genital mutilation is defined as all procedures that involve partial or total removal of external female genitalia, or other injuries to the female genital organs for cultural and religious purposes. In Ethiopia, the prevalence of female genital mutilation practice was 70.8% according to Ethiopian demographic and health survey 2016.

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The World Health Organization (WHO)(2000) defines female genital mutilation(FGM) as ‘pro-cedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs whether for cultural, religious or other non-therapeutic reason’.

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A new large section of the airport shopping centre was opened in 1989. On the same occasion, a painting on enamelled steel plates was unveiled on the outside wall of the terminal building facing the central Nytorv Square. The artist Hanne Salamon was given a free hand to create this work of art. She says that her main intention was to create something simple with bright colours that would catch the eye of the busy passers-by. The strong colours of this work add life to the huge grey and white surfaces so characteristic of the airport buildings.

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Institutional and political developments since the end of theColdWar have led to a revival of public interest in, and anxiety about, international law. Liberal international law is appealed to as offering a means of constrain- ing power, representing universal values and governing relations between sovereign states. This book brings together scholars who draw on jurispru- dence, philosophy, legal history and political theory to analyse the stakes of this turn to international law.

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In Africa, as in many parts of the world, adolescent reproductive health is a controversial issue for policy makers and programme planners. Adolescents are particularly vulnerable to HIV and AIDS and to a host of other problems such as sexually transmitted infection, unwanted pregnancy, unsafe abortions, sexual abuse, female genital mutilation and unsafe circumcision. Yet many countries don’t have adolescent health policies and much remains to be done to ensure that adolescents can access appropriate sexual and reproductive health services....

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In argentina many pregnant women do not visit health centres until late in their pregnancy. There is no gender-specific HIV strategy within the government’s HIV prevention program, and most cases of HIV infection among infants stem from the lack of antenatal care and insufficient information and counselling provided to women on HIV/ AIDS and sexual and reproductive rights. Health care access varies widely across the country, and stigma and discrimination from health care workers impedes service utilization.

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This paper is intended to give information on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FMG/C)1 and to highlight opportunities for the Bank to address the issue of FGM/C within its overall development agenda and poverty reduction strategy. Overall, the Bank has been rather conservative terms of dealing with the issue FGM/C.

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