What are the strategies for engaging community leaders and influencers in FGM prevention efforts?

The practice of cutting girls is frequently based on a traditional belief in the need to control a girl's sexuality and ensure her virginity until marriage. 5 days ago ... Female Genital Mutilation is illegal. FGM is illegal in Scotland and the rest of the UK. It's also against a person's rights to health and to ... FGM stands for Female Genital Mutilation. Genital Mutilation means genitals are deliberately cut, injured or changed, but with no medical reason for the ... Jan 14, 2025 ... An estimated 200 million women and girls alive today have undergone FGM, according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). FGM is the collective term for a range of procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the femila ... Female Genital Cutting (FGC), Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), female circumcison or khatna. Female genital cutting involves the partial or total removal of ... Abstract. Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) is widely accepted as an alternative means to conventional finger prick test for measuring glucose level in individuals ... Female genital mutilation (FGM) refers to a range of procedures intended to either injure or partially or entirely remove the external female genitalia for any ... Jan 22, 2025 ... What are the physical effects of FGM on girls? · bladder and urinary tract infections · cysts · infertility · greater risk of complications when ... The term Female Genital Mutilation FGM has been defined by the World Health Organisation as all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external.