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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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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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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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Mapping the lack of public initiative against female genital mutilation in Denmark

Reproductive Health, 2018
Background Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a harmful practice prevalent in 35 countries, mainly in Africa, as well as in some Middle Eastern countries and a few Asian countries.
Gro Møller Christoffersen, Peter James Bruhn, Rosanna de Neergaard, Susanne Engel, Vibeke Naeser   +4 more
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Female genital mutilation/cutting in Africa [PDF]

Translational Andrology and Urology, 2017
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a traditional practice in which the external female genitalia is partially or totally incised or excised for a non-therapeutic reason, usually without the consent of the individual. FGM/C is common in Africa with varying prevalence in different countries, though the incidence is reducing because it is ...
Odukogbe, Akin-Tunde A., Afolabi, Bosede B., Bello, Oluwasomidoyin O., Adeyanju, Ayodeji S.   +3 more
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Prevalence and factors associated with female genital mutilation among women of reproductive age in the Bawku municipality and Pusiga District of northern Ghana

BMC Women's Health, 2018
Background Globally, three million girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) and an estimated 200 million girls and women in the world have undergone FGM.
Evelyn Sakeah, Cornelius Debpuur, Abraham Rexford Oduro, Paul Welaga, Raymond Aborigo, James Kotuah Sakeah, Cheryl A. Moyer   +6 more
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Female Genital Self-Image in Women With and Without Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Sexual Medicine, 2020
Introduction: The consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) on female genital self-image are not known. Aim: To assess whether women with and without FGM/C differed with regard to female genital self-image.
Abdulrahim A. Rouzi, MB, ChB, Rigmor C. Berg, PhD, Rana Alamoudi, MB, ChB, Faten Alzaban, MB, ChB, Mohammad Sehlo, MD   +4 more
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A Brain‐Wide Atlas of Astrocytic Oxytocin Receptors Reveals a Glial Basis for Nucleus Accumbens Modulation of Affiliative Behavior

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The cellular actors of oxytocin signaling are under intense scrutiny. A brain‐wide anatomical and functional analysis in mice and rats reveals widespread expression of oxytocin receptors in astrocytes. These receptors are functionally active and, in the nucleus accumbens, selectively regulate male social affiliation.
Clémence Denis, Stefan Stojilkovic, Kai‐Yi Wang, Cristina Márquez, Annabel C. Kleinwächter, Angel Baudon, Yuval Podpecan, Aurélia Ces, Mélanie Kremer, Isabelle Arnoux, Nathalie Rouach, Jemima Helen, Sophie Trender, Andreas Wallkum, Selina Wunsch, Franziska Schommer, Moritz C. Wimmer, Tim Schubert, Felix Franke, Jabir Aliyu Muhammad, Eva M. Eisemann, Ingrid Camila Possa‐Paranhos, Cassandra Baumann, Pierre‐Alexis Derrien, Quirin Krabichler, Cosmo Garcia, Henning Fröhlich, Matthew K. Kirchner, Valery Grinevich, Pascal Darbon, Javier E. Stern, Ferdinand Althammer, Alexandre Charlet   +32 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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