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Circumcision, Female (0):
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Circumcision, Female
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Policy on reinfibulation exposes the interface between individual or micro-ethics and population-wide or macro-ethics. If, following childbirth, an infibulated woman requests reinfibulation, a gynecologist may respectfully advise her of its negative implications, but would not act in breach of ethic...
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PMID: 20178881
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Reinfibulation is resuturing after delivery or gynecological procedures of the incised scar tissue resulting from infibulation. Despite the global fight against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), reinfibulation of previously mutilated or circumcised women is still performed in various countr...
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PMID: 20138274
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (16)5 2010
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To estimate the cost to the health system of obstetric complications due to female genital mutilation (FGM) in six African countries.
A multistate model depicted six cohorts of 100,000 15-year-old girls who survived until the age of 45 years. Cohort members were modelled to have various degrees of F...
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PMID: 20431792
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The practising midwife (13)4 2010
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The practising midwife (13)4 2010
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We conclude that female nurses when confronting female surgery distances themselves behind the professional nurse and performs nursing care as a daily routine. It means that these nurses live a personal conflict that influences directly on how they supply care. They care for, but do not care about;...
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PMID: 20487061
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Only 12.4 percent of the sample intended to discontinue the practice. The logistic regression models showed that women with a positive attitude to discontinue the practice believed that FGC was not an important part of religious traditions, that husbands did not prefer a cut wife, and that FGC reduc...
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PMID: 20200770
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Journal of Psychohistory (37)4 2010
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Nigerian journal of medicine : journal of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria (19)3 2010
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Majority of the respondents (94.6%) were aware of FGM. Mass media was the main source of information. Majority (83.8%) wanted the practice to be discontinued, 31.3% reported having had FGM, most done by traditional healers. About 14.6% have a plan to circumcise their daughters citing tradition, marr...
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PMID: 20845637
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Klinische Paediatrie (221)7 2009
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Female circumcision (genital mutilation) is a criminal violation of human rights under German law. Even with consent of the person to be circumcised and/or her legal representative this procedure must not be carried out since a consent to female circumcision is unethical and therefore void. As much...
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PMID: 20013563
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Female genital cutting (FGC) is a widespread cultural practice in Africa and the Middle East, with a number of potential adverse health consequences for women. It was hypothesized by Kun (1997) that FGC increases the risk of HIV transmission through a number of different mechanisms. Using the 2003 d...
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PMID: 19607733
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Data on female genital cutting are presented from 1942 women aged 15–49 years in Amhara region, Ethiopia, 2005. Reportedly 69% (1333/1942) had undergone the procedure. Rates showed a secular decline, decreasing from 77% in women aged 45–49 years old to 59% in those age 15–24 years. Of women wit...
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PMID: 19326265
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is almost universal in Guinea and practiced by all ethnic and religious groups and social classes, although the prevalence of the various types of FGM varies by socioeconomic group. A common explanation for FGM practices is that they contribute to the social control o...
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PMID: 17943434
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About 14% of the women intended to discontinue the practice. Twenty-six percent of the women were empowered in all household decisions. Levels of women's empowerment adjusted for age, residence, education, interaction between empowerment and education, work status, and female genital cutting status...
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PMID: 19249886
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This prospective study on female genital mutilation among Edo people was based on female children and parents who presented on account of it at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City, Nigeria, between January 2002 and December 2007. During the period, 51 female children aged 10 days a...
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PMID: 20687262
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Ginekologia polska (80)2 2009
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An increasing number of immigrants from countries practicing female genital mutilation (FGM) has begun to concern Europe as well. The aim of this article is to present recent medical data about FGM which, in the age of globalisation and migration of people, may become essential for gynaecologists wo...
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PMID: 19338209
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) includes procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons. An estimated 100 to 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of FGM with some three million girls at risk in Africa every year...
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PMID: 19223817
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We have to be aware of their arguments and fears, but we should also stress the parents' responsibility in taking a health risk for their daughters. It is important to know the family's opinion on FGM. Some may need support, especially against community pressure. As FGM is often performed on newborn...
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PMID: 18437420
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In the general population, the prevalence of HIV was 6.7%, while that of HCV was 2.1%. Both infections occurred more frequently in males than in females. HIV and HCV coinfection rate was 0.6%. Co-infection was significantly more common in males than females. All types of infection--HIV, HCV and HIV/...
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PMID: 19662739
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Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de sante de la Mediterranee orientale = al-Majallah al-sihhiyah li-sharq al-mutawassit (15)6 2009
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The medicalization of female genital cutting (FGC) has been increasing. This cross-sectional study estimated the determinants of the practice of FGC among Egyptian physicians. Responses from 193 physicians showed that while 88% of them knew at least one adverse physical or sexual consequence, 18% ap...
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PMID: 20218128
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We found firm rejection of all forms of FGC and absence of a guiding motive. Informants failed to see any meaning in upholding the custom. We conclude that children of Ethiopian or Eritrean parents resident in Sweden run little risk of being subjected to FGC. A societal structure prepared to deal wi...
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PMID: 19116825
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Journal of Psychohistory (36)4 2009
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BMC Public Health (9)1 2009
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Although the intention of the parents to circumcise their daughters was high (84%), 42.4% of 288 < or = 12 girls were reported being undergone FGM. The prevalence increased with age, and about 52% and 95% were circumcised at the age of 7-8 and 11-12 years, respectively. Almost all operations were pe...
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PMID: 19635149
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A total of 225 (80%) professionals answered the questionnaire in 2001 and 184 (62%) in 2004. Sixteen percent declared detection of some case in 2004, rising three-fold from the number reported in 2001. Eighteen percent stated that they had no interest in FGM. Less than 40% correctly identified the t...
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PMID: 19146694
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Zhongguo Xiufu Chongjian Waike Zazhi/Chinese Journal of Reparative and Reconstructive Surgery (22)12 2008
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All flaps survived, and the contour of the vulva was satisfactory. Among the 15 patients, 14 patients' incisions obtained healing by first intention, and only 1 male with transsexualism was discovered to suffer from rectovaginal fistula at the remote juncture of the two flaps at 7 days after the ope...
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PMID: 19137878
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Most respondents (88.0%) cited traditional excisors as operators of the procedure, while 7.8% mentioned health workers. Factors found to be statistically significantly associated with the practice of FGM are age, gender and educational status of respondents (p<0.05). The age at which FGM is usually...
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PMID: 18609348
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I argue that the concept of tradition is inherently vague and, as such, cannot support the weight of the argument that makes it the final arbiter of moral values. The concept especially does not justify intense pain and suffering inflicted on children....
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PMID: 18662952
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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, there was one kind of female orgasm and it was clitoral; there was also only one kind of healthy sexual instinct for a woman and it was for penetrative sex with her husband. When a woman behaved outside of this normality-by masturbating or by...
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PMID: 18065832
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Revue medicale suisse (4)161 2008
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In Switzerland, the estimated number of survivors after traditional female genital mutilation in the country of origin or girls and adult women at risk is 6-7000. Health professionals must be able to respond adequately to their questions not only during adolescence but through out the different peri...
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PMID: 18630146
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Traumatic wounds of the female genitalia include accidental straddle injuries or impalement, chemical or thermal burns, insufflation injuries, blunt trauma, or crush injuries. Children and adolescents may be victims of rape, sexual abuse, and female genital mutilation. Information is provided on epi...
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PMID: 18463455
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six themes of experiences of FGM among Eritrean women during pregnancy and childbirth were identified. They are (1) fear and anxiety; (2) extreme pain and long-term complications; (3) health-care professionals' knowledge of circumcision and health-care system; (4) support from family, relatives and...
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PMID: 17316934
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Archives de Pédiatrie (15)5 2008
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Archives de Pédiatrie (15)5 2008
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Archives de Pédiatrie (15)5 2008
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Archives de Pédiatrie (15)5 2008
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To assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices with regard to female genital mutilation (FGM) among gynaecologists in Flanders, Belgium.
A questionnaire-based survey was sent to 724 Flemish gynaecologists and trainees.
Three-hundred-and-thirty-four questionnaires were returned. The survey revealed...
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PMID: 18465481
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The prevalence of FGC among schoolgirls in Egypt was 50.3%. The prevalence of FGC was 46.2% in government urban schools, 9.2% in private urban schools and 61.7% in rural schools. Educational levels of mother and father were negatively associated with FGC (P < 0.001). The mean age of the time of FGC...
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PMID: 18438515
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We present a case of vaginal calculus formation following an initial insult of female genital mutilation (FGM) and crocodile bite to the external genital. A literature review made with regards to acute and late complication of female genital mutilation. Female genital cutting existed as early as the...
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PMID: 21309209
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The Lancet (371)9616 2008
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Reproductive BioMedicine Online (16 Suppl 1) 2008
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The objective of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of female genital cutting (FGC) in Upper Egypt, after 6 years of putting prohibition law into action. A total number of 3730 girls between the ages of 10-14 years were recruited to participate in this study. They were mainly preparatory scho...
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PMID: 18348787
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We suggest that it is therefore more appropriate to describe Rwandan vaginal practices as female genital modification rather than mutilation....
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PMID: 18247211
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Ugeskrift for laeger (170)1 2008
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Two cases of epithelial inclusion cyst as a late complication of childhood female circumcision in patients aged 39 and 27 years are reported. Symptoms were interference with sexual intercourse and discomfort during sitting. Surgical treatment of the condition is known to be effective with few compli...
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PMID: 18208722
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Rokitansky syndrome could be classified into 4 clinical types according to the degree of development of the uterus. The labio-vestibular technique was simple and not associated with any graft rejection, hair growth or contraction of the reformed tract. Dyspareunia and marital failure were less signi...
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PMID: 18158633
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The reliability of the self-reported form of FGM is low, which may have implications for research, interventions and health care. Although many women express negative attitudes toward FGM and know about serious complications, the religious justifications, the practice of FGM on daughters, reinfibula...
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PMID: 18607822
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The purpose of this study was to compare sexual function between women of infertile couples (AR) and women seeking tubal ligation (TL). Women who attended Setor de Infertilidade do Serviço de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia do Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) or the Serviço de Orientação e...
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PMID: 18224546
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