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Management of Psychosocial and Sexual Complains Among Cancer Patients in the African Context: A scoping review

Sexual Medicine, 2022
Background: There is a lack of specialised psychosocial and sexual therapies for cancer patients in the African context. Aim: This paper aims to highlight gaps in capacities of health care providers to address psychosocial and sexual needs of patients ...
Padaruth Ramlachan, MBChB, MHlthSc, FECSM, Esho Tammary, MSc, PHD, Osur Joachim, MBChB, PhD, Ireri Mugambi Edward, BSc, MSc, Serigne Magueye, MD, FWACS   +4 more
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Evaluation of Psychological and Sexual Effects of Female Genital Mutilation (Circumcision) [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Medical Research, 2022
The aim of the present study is to evaluate sexual and psychological effects of female genital mutilation (circumcisin ). This was a case control and comparative study that was conducted at obstetrics and gynecology outpatient clinic at Beni-Suef ...
Amal Abdallah, Hamada Abdel Wahed, Ahmed Ezzat, Heba Ibrahim Khalifa   +3 more
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Quality of services offered to women with female genital mutilation across health facilities in a Kenyan County

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Female genital mutilation (FGM) curtails women’s health, human rights and development. Health system as a critical pillar for social justice is key in addressing FGM while executing the core mandate of disease prevention and management.
Samuel Kimani, Chantalle Okondo, Jacinta Muteshi-Strachan, Jaldesa Guyo   +3 more
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Prevalence, knowledge, attitude, motivators and intentional practice of female genital mutilation among women of reproductive age: a community-based analytical cross-sectional study in Tanzania

BMC Women's Health, 2023
Background To harmonize and enhance economic growth at the individual, family, community, and national levels, healthy women embody the guardian of family health and a healthy world.
Charlotte H. Mwanja, Patricia Z Herman, Walter C. Millanzi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What interventions are effective to prevent or respond to female genital mutilation? A review of existing evidence from 2008–2020

PLOS Global Public Health, 2023
As the final decade of acceleration towards zero new cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM, SDG Target 5.3) by 2030 has begun, increasing the rigour, relevance, and utility of research for programming, policy development and resource allocation is ...
D. Matanda, N. Van Eekert, M. Croce-Galis, Jill Gay, M. J. Middelburg, K. Hardee   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of female health care service providers on female genital mutilation in Somalia: A cross-sectional study

Women's Health, 2023
Background: Despite a strong international standpoint against female genital mutilation, the prevalence of female genital mutilation in Somalia is extremely high.
Nadira Mehriban, Abu Naser Zafar Ullah, Md Imdadul Haque, Md Golam Dostogir Harun, Deka Mohamed Isse, Faisal Muhammad, ABM Alauddin Chowdhury, Moniruddin Chowdhury, Md Zobaer Hasan, Thomas Dessoffy   +9 more
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Estimating excess mortality due to female genital mutilation

Scientific Reports, 2023
Globally, over 200 million women and girls have been subjected to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This practice, illegal in most countries, often happens in unsanitary conditions and without clinical supervision with consequent bleeding and infection ...
A. Ghosh, H. Flowe, James C Rockey
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effectiveness of interventions designed to prevent or respond to female genital mutilation: A review of evidence

, 2021
Girls are one-third less likely to be subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) today than 30 years ago. However, rapid population growth in some of the world’s poorest countries, where FGM persists, threatens to roll back progress.
Nankali Maksud, Claudia Cappa, Harriet Akullu, Colleen Murray, Zahrah Nesbitt-Ahmed, Stephanie Baric, Yasmine Sinkhada, Nafissatou Diop, Mireille Tushiminina, Berhanu Legesse, Thierno Diouf, Christina Pallitto, Erick Waga, Daniel Lango, Rachael Hongo, Esther Lwanga, Tobias Axelsson, Sofia Strid, Helen Baillot, Nina Murray, Elaine Connelly, Natasha Howard, Rigmor Berg, Eva Denison, Rigmor Berg, Eva Denison, Rigmor Berg, Eva Denison, Beniamino Cislaghi, Lori Heise, Beniamino Cislaghi, Lori Heise, Covidence, Rachel Davis, Eva Denison, Rigmor Berg, Simon Lewin, Atle Fretheim, J Gray, L Chambers, Michael Harari, R Heather, Christopher Parola, Amy Hartwell, Riegelman, Lori Heise, Douglas Huber, Rachel Jewkes, Michael Flood, James Lang, R Johansen, B Elise, J Nafissatou, Glenn Diop, Els Laverack, Leye, Gerry Mackie, John Lejeune, Agnes Meroka-Mutua, Daniel Mwanga, Charles Olungah, Mansoureh Refaei, Soodabeh Aghababaei, Abolghasem Pourreza, Z Seyedeh, Bettina Shell-Duncan, Amadou Moreau, Katherine Wander, Sarah Smith, Bettina Shell-Duncan, Katherine Wander, Ylva Hernlund, Amadou Moreau, Sofia Strid, Tobias Axelsson, Tracey Varker, Who, Josephine Wouango, Susan Ostermann, Daniel Mwanga   +79 more
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Factors associated with the practice of and intention to perform female genital mutilation on a female child among married women in Abakaliki Nigeria

BMC Women's Health, 2023
Background Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), also known as Female Genital Cutting or Female Circumcision is the harmful excision of the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
C. Onah, E. Ossai, Okechukwu Matthew Nwachukwu, Gloria Ekwutosi Nwankwo, Hyacinth Ogbonna Mbam, B. Azuogu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Medicalisation of female genital mutilation is a dangerous development

British medical journal, 2023
Medicalisation of female genital mutilation is a troubling development that hinders efforts to abandon the practice, jeopardising the wellbeing of girls and women, write Samuel Kimani and ...
Samuel Kimani, H. Barrett, Jacinta Muteshi-Stranchan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source