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Is there an association between female circumcision and perinatal death?
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2002 OBJECTIVE: In Sweden, a country with high standards of obstetric care, the high rate of perinatal mortality among children of immigrant women from the Horn of Africa raises the question of whether there is an association between female circumcision and ...
Essén Birgitta +5 more
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, 2020 In recent decades, female genital mutilation has come to be regarded as a major breach of human rights. International anti-FGM agencies such as WHO, UNICEF and The Red Cross/Red Crescent have drawn up strongly worded documents designed to protect women ...
Malmström, Maria +3 more
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The impact of a pro-male circumcision (MC) approach towards an HIV/AIDS prevention strategy in Botswana [PDF]
, 2009 Includes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-103).This paper investigates how the emergence of male circumcision (MC) as part of a broader HIV prevention strategy will impact on Botswana's HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Mbayi, Letsema
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Medical and social aspects of female circumcision in Somalia
, 1989 The article illustrates medical and social aspects of female genital mutilation (FGM). Once classified the type of modification, the author focuses on some case studies of complications registered in the Banaadir Hospital in Mogadishu in 1984.Maqaalku ...
Mohamed Warsame
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, 2001 It\u27s easy for us to be self-righteous and rant about the cruelty of female circumcision.
Meyerhardt, Lisa
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Debunking myths about female circumcision
African Journal of Urology, 2013 Catherine deVries
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Negotiating scripts for meaningful sexuality an ethnography of youths in the Gambia [PDF]
Sexuality is an ambivalent concept with multiple layers of meaning, touching upon diverse aspects of individual and social meaning-making systems.
Nyanzi, Stella
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This fact sheet summarizes information in four areas of male circumcision: 1) male circumcision and risk for HIV transmission; 2) male circumcision and other health conditions; 3) risks associated with male circumcision; and 4) status of HIV infection ...
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Female circumcision or female genital mutilation? An Islamic viewpoint
, 2014 The practice of female circumcision pre-dates Islam. The Jews and the Coptic Christians in Egypt are known for this practice. The basis for female circumcision is basically the Sunnah of the Prophet pbuh, the tradition from the compilation of Abu Dawood.
Alkali, Alhaji Umar, Mohd, Azizah
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