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The effect of female circumcision on maternal and neonatal outcomes after childbirth: a cohort study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023
Background Circumcision has many side effects and complications on women’s lives and affects their physical, mental, and social health. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of female circumcision on maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Soheila Rabiepour, Zeynab Ahmadi
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The Gender Mainstreaming Strategy as a Solution for the Constitutional Rights Violation of Female Circumcision

Yuridika, 2022
In recent years, violence against women has continued. Culture, beliefs, and the role of community and religious leaders are the reasons for the practice of female circumcision in East Java Province. To the perpetrators, this activity is reasonable. This
Lanny Ramli
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Rare Bleeding Disorders and Bleeding Disorder of Unknown Cause: Current Understanding and Recent Developments

Haemophilia, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rare bleeding disorders (RBDs) represent a diverse group of inherited conditions involving coagulation factors or platelets. These conditions, such as Glanzmann thrombasthenia (GT) or severe coagulation factor deficiencies, are uncommon. In contrast, bleeding disorder of unknown cause (BDUC) is a diagnosis of exclusion without an identifiable ...
Alessandro Casini, Robert Klamroth, Bauke Haisma, Dino Mehic, Saskia E. M. Schols   +4 more
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“You must cut that long and stinking thing”: uncovering the lived experiences of uncircumcised pokot women in North-Eastern Uganda

BMC Women's Health, 2022
Background Female circumcision remains a dominant practice among the Pokot of North-Eastern Uganda. This paper explores the lived experiences of uncircumcised Pokot women, as they continue to live in a community, where the practice is cherished.
Noah Kalengo, Laban. K. Musinguzi, Janestic Mwende Twikirize   +2 more
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Male genital lichen sclerosus

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, EarlyView.
Male genital lichen sclerosus is driven by chronic, occluded exposure of susceptible genital epithelium to urine, rather than infection or autoimmunity. This review synthesizes clinical, anatomical and molecular evidence showing how microincontinence and occlusion initiate inflammation, fibrosis and carcinogenesis, and explains the curative effect of ...
Georgios Kravvas, Rory Barry, Richard E. Watchorn, Christopher B. Bunker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recurrent UTIs in Children With CAKUT

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) encompass diverse diagnoses that commonly present as urinary tract dilatation and are the leading cause of kidney failure in children. Antenatal hydronephrosis occurs in ~1% of pregnancies; most resolve spontaneously, but conditions such as posterior urethral valves (PUV ...
Lucielle Standish, Holly Campbell, Shehryar Saharan, Lilian M. Johnstone, Neil Price, Chris Kimber, Kiarash Taghavi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors associated with female genital mutilation in Burkina Faso and its policy implications [PDF]

, 2011
Background: Female genital mutilation (FGM) usually undertaken between the ages of 1-9 years and is widely practised in some part of Africa and by migrants from African countries in other parts of the world.
Karmaker, Bue, Kandala, Ngianga-Bakwin, Bue Karmaker, Karmaker, B., Donna Chung, Aileen Clarke, Kandala, N., Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala, Chung, Donna, Clarke, Aileen, Clarke, A.   +10 more
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Khitan Anak Perempuan, Tradisi, dan Paham Keagamaan Islam: Analisa Teks Hermeneutika Fazlur Rahman

Buana Gender: Jurnal Studi Gender dan Anak, 2016
The practice of girls circumcision in Indonesian still exists these days. Though it is not as severe as the practice of circumcision in Africa and Middle East, the practice of circumcision in Indonesia is still classified as very unsophisticated ...
Masthuriyah Sa’dan
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Psychosocial and sexual aspects of female circumcision

African Journal of Urology, 2013
Sexual behavior is a result of interaction of biology and psychology. Sexual excitement of the female can be triggered by stimulation of erotogenic areas; part of which is the clitoris.
S. Abdel-Azim
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