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Leadership for Cultural Transformation: Addressing Female Genital Mutilation in Kenya

Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2015
The cultural practice of female genital mutilation persists, with grave implications for girls’ and women’s health. The cultural reasons behind the practice are complex.
Kerubo Abuya
doaj   +1 more source

Sexual and relational challenges in men and women affected by prostate cancer: a Project SEXUS study

BJU International, EarlyView.
Objectives To examine, in a nationally representative Danish study, a comprehensive range of sexual characteristics, dysfunctions and relational challenges among men with prostate cancer (PCa) aged ≥50 years and women married to such men, compared with unaffected men and women.
Ingrid Josefine Lundorff, Christian Graugaard, Mikkel Fode, Mikael Andersson, Morten Frisch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Debating medicalization of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C): learning from (policy) experiences across countries

Reproductive Health, 2019
Background Although Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is internationally considered a harmful practice, it is increasingly being medicalized allegedly to reduce its negative health effects, and is thus suggested as a harm reduction strategy in ...
Els Leye, Nina Van Eekert, Simukai Shamu, Tammary Esho, Hazel Barrett, ANSER   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beautiful vulvas: expanding illustrative visual imagery of female genital cutting types. [PDF]

J Sex Med, 2023
Chaisson N, Johnson-Agbakwu CE, Finch A, Salad M, Connor JJ, Chen M, Robinson BBE.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A revised classification system of the marronoid clade of spiders (Araneae), based on dense sampling phylogenomics and comparative morphology

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract The marronoid clade is a globally distributed, ecologically diverse group of spiders. It is an important faunal component in both natural and synanthropic environments, and even found in aquatic and extreme habitats such as desert salt flats. The systematics of the marronoid clade has been notoriously unstable due to the widespread character ...
Jonas O. Wolff, Michael B. J. Kelly, Franklyn Cala‐Riquelme, Jacob A. Gorneau, Katherine O. Montana, Helen M. Smith, Phil J. Sirvid, Cor J. Vink, Lauren A. Esposito, Martín J. Ramírez, Charles E. Griswold   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Serious life events and associated PTSD in Gambian girls exposed to female genital cutting. [PDF]

Front Public Health, 2023
Heir T, Bendiksen B, Minteh F, Kuye RA, Lien IL.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Female genital cutting in Egypt: drivers and potential responses

Development in Practice, 2017
ABSTRACTFemale genital cutting (FGC) is a major issue at the interplay of faith and health in development. The practice is in part faith-inspired, and has clear negative health impacts. The prevalence of FGC remains especially high in Egypt. This article reflects on some of the factors that lead to the perpetuation of the practice by analysing data ...
Wodon, Quentin, Yedan, Ali, Leye, Els
openaire   +2 more sources

Factors associated with drug adherence in psoriasis: a single‐center, retrospective, questionnaire‐based exploratory study in Bavaria

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives Achieving sustained drug adherence in psoriasis remains challenging despite effective therapies. This exploratory study aims to investigate the care situation and factors associated with drug adherence in patients with moderate‐to‐severe psoriasis vulgaris (PsO). Patients and Methods A single‐center study was conducted
Negahr Jalili‐Tazeshahri, Gunnar Huppertz, Bernadett Kurz, Maria Isabel von Eichborn, Mark Berneburg, Tim Maisch, Dennis Niebel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

'It is what was handed over to us as our heritage and must not be taken away just like that': Traditional birth attendants' attitudes towards the elimination of intergenerational female genital mutilation/cutting in Osun State, Nigeria.

PLOS Global Public Health
Female genital mutilation/cutting is a harmful practice that violates the sexual and reproductive health rights of women and girls. The practice is often perpetrated directly or indirectly from one generation to another as a way of preserving the culture,
Rosemary Omolara Fafowora, Sinegugu Evidence Duma   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Female genital cutting (FGC) type: proposing a multifaceted, interactive method for FGC self-assessment. [PDF]

J Sex Med, 2023
Johnson-Agbakwu CE, Chen M, Salad M, Chaisson N, Connor JJ, Robinson BBE.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source