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Important lessons on FGM/C abandonment from four research studies in Egypt

Author(s) -

Nada Ramadan,

Nahla AbdelTawab,

Abeer Salem

Publication year - 2020

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

DOI - 10.31899/rh13.1024

Subject(s) - abandonment (legal) , female circumcision , medicalization , witness , population , medicine , family medicine , demography , political science , gynecology , environmental health , sociology , psychiatry , law

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) continues to be a widespread practice in Egypt. According to the 2014 Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS), the prevalence rate of FGM/C was 92% among ever-married women aged 15 to 49 (MOPH, El-Zanaty and Associates, and ICF International 2015a). However, Egypt continues to witness a drastic surge in the medicalisation of FGM/C in Egypt, with 74% of women aged 19 years and younger circumcised by medical practitioners, compared to 55% in 1995 for women in the same age group (MOPH, El-Zanaty and Associates, and ICF International 2015a).

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