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The experience of maternity care for migrant women living with female genital mutilation: A qualitative synthesis [PDF]

, 2019
BACKGROUND: Increasing numbers of childbearing women with a history of female genital mutilation (FGM) are accessing maternity services in high-income countries across the world.
Abusharaf, Ameresekere, Aya, Banks, Berg, Berggren, Bondas, Bulma, Chalmers, Chalmers, Crawford, Creighton, Essén, Essén, Gough, Hicks, Hill, Lundberg, Macklin, Moher, Moxey, Murray, Noblit, Small, Thierfelder, Vangen   +25 more
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Risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury associated with female genital mutilation/cutting and timing of deinfibulation

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2022
Introduction A greater risk of obstetric anal sphincter injury has been reported among African migrants in several host countries compared with the general population. To what degree female genital mutilation/cutting affects this risk is not clear.
Sølvi Taraldsen, Siri Vangen, Pål Øian, Ingvil K. Sørbye   +3 more
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Improving sexual and reproductive health of migrant girls and women living with female genital mutilations providing them with specific maternity care. [PDF]

, 2017
Worldwide, 200 million girls and women have been estimated as living with female genital mutilation/cutting. Today, this phenomenon does not only concern the countries where this practice is widespread, but also in many other nations where the ...
Benagiano, Giuseppe, Cerbo, Rosanna, Fabiola, Riccardini, Jasmine, Abdulcadir, Lucchese, Franco, Luciana, Barreca   +5 more
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BEHAVIOR. Female genital cutting is not a social coordination norm [PDF]

, 2015
The World Health Organization defines female genital cutting as any procedure that removes or injures any part of a female's external genitalia for nonmedical reasons (1). Cutting brings no documented health benefits and leads to serious health problems.
Ahmed, Hilal El Fadil, Efferson, Charles, Elhadi, Amy, Fehr, Ernst, Vogt, Sonja   +4 more
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Female circumcision: Limiting the harm [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/PX6UzP]

F1000Research, 2012
Objective: To review the strength of evidence that links many health hazards to female genital cutting. Material and methods: Literature search in Medline/Pubmed and Google scholar.
Mohamed Kandil
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Female genital mutilation/cutting in Sierra Leone: are educated women intending to circumcise their daughters?

BMC International Health and Human Rights, 2020
Background Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) has been recognized as a gross violation of human rights of girls and women. This is well established in numerous international legal instruments.
Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Justice Kanor Tetteh, Ebenezer Kwesi Armah-Ansah, Kofi Aduo-Adjei, Aisha Sena-Iddrisu   +4 more
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Female circumcision: Limiting the harm [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/RHhQ7C]

F1000Research, 2012
Objective: To review the strength of evidence that links many health hazards to female genital cutting. Material and methods: Literature search in Medline/Pubmed and Google scholar.
Mohamed Kandil
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Determinants of Disagreement with Female Genital Mutilation Among Mothers

International Journal of Women's Health, 2022
Esra Keles,1 Hasan Huseyin Eker,2 Guven Bektemur,3 Ifrah Adan Hilowle,4 Mohamed Mukhtar Kassim,5 Mohamed Abdulkadir Hassan-Kadle,6,7 Ali Adali,5 Şeyma Karaketir8 1Department of Gynecologic Oncology, University of Health Sciences Turkey, Kartal ...
Keles E, Eker HH, Bektemur G, Hilowle IA, Kassim MM, Hassan-Kadle MA, Adali A, Karaketir Ş   +7 more
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New research on the global prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting: Research, clinical, and policy implications.

PLoS Medicine, 2022
In this perspective, Kerrie Stevenson and Brenda Kelly discuss new research on the prevalence of female genital mutilation/cutting alongside clinical and policy implications.
Kerrie Stevenson, Brenda Kelly
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Medicalization of female genital mutilation/cutting

African Journal of Urology, 2013
Globally 100–140 million women and girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) which is a harmful practice, associated with immediate and long term complications, has no benefit what so ever, is unethical and has no religious ...
G.I. Serour
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