The association between physical complications following female genital cutting and the mental health of 12-year-old Gambian girls: A community-based cross-sectional study [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Background Female genital cutting (FGC) involve an acute physical trauma that hold a potential risk for immediate and long-term complications and mental health problems.
Bothild Bendiksen +5 more
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Medicalization of female genital cutting in Malaysia: A mixed methods study [PDF]
PLoS Med, 2020 Background Despite the clear stand taken by the United Nations (UN) and other international bodies in ensuring that female genital cutting (FGC) is not performed by health professionals, the rate of medicalization has not reduced. The current study aimed
A. Rashid, Yufu Iguchi, S. Afiqah
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Sculptors of African Women’s Bodies: Forces Reshaping the Embodiment of Female Genital Cutting in the West [PDF]
Arch Sex Behav, 2020 Female genital cutting (FGC) continues to garner increasing attention across western health-care systems seeking to optimize care and outcomes among migrant communities affected by this practice. Besides clinical knowledge gaps, health-care providers may
C. Johnson-Agbakwu, E. Manin
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Prevalence and Barriers to Ending Female Genital Cutting: The Case of Afar and Amhara Regions of Ethiopia [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020 Female genital cutting (FGC) remains highly prevalent in Ethiopia, in spite of a slowly decreasing trend over the last decade. In an effort to inform and strengthen FGC interventions in Ethiopia, this study aimed to assess FGC prevalence in cross ...
S. Abebe +3 more
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Social norm coordination and readiness to change female genital cutting: Evidence from Senegambia [PDF]
SSM Popul Health, 2020 Background Female genital cutting (FGC), which poses risks to the health of girls, has proved remarkably persistent in many communities in Africa, despite decades of efforts to discourage it.
K. Wander, B. Shell-Duncan
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Female genital cutting in Malaysia: a mixed-methods study [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2019 Objective This study aimed to understand the reasons for the practice by the Muslim community, traditional practitioners and the views of religious scholars as well as the medicalisation trend of the practice of female genital cutting (FGC).Design This ...
Abdul Rashid, Yufu Iguchi
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Sexual norms and the intention to use healthcare services related to female genital cutting: A qualitative study among Somali and Sudanese women in Norway [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Background Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is a traditionally meaningful practice in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. It is associated with a high risk of long-term physical and psychosexual health problems.
M. Ziyada, I. Lien, R. Johansen
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How to ensure policies and interventions rely on strong supporting facts to improve women’s health: The case of female genital cutting, using Rosling’s Factfulness approach [PDF]
Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand, 2020 Rosling et al’s book Factfulness aims to inspire people to use strong supporting facts in their decision‐making, with 10 rules of thumb to fight dramatic instincts.
B. Essén, Luce Mosselmans
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Barriers to access to the Norwegian healthcare system among sub-Saharan African immigrant women exposed to female genital cutting [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 Introduction Millions of women and girls have been exposed to female genital cutting (FGC). The practice of FGC extends beyond countries in Africa and Asia in which it is traditionally practiced.
V. Mbanya +4 more
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Addressing Female Genital Cutting among service providers in New York. [PDF]
Prof Psychol Res Pr, 2021 A. Akinsulure-Smith, Tracy Wong, M. Min
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