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Mali

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Mali: Les Exciseuses Persistent Malgré Les Supplications, Frontiers In Reproductive Health Jan 2000

Mali: Les Exciseuses Persistent Malgré Les Supplications, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

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Mali: Fgc Excisors Persist Despite Entreaties, Frontiers In Reproductive Health Jan 2000

Mali: Fgc Excisors Persist Despite Entreaties, Frontiers In Reproductive Health

Reproductive Health

About 94 percent of Malian women aged 15–49 have experienced female genital cutting (FGC). In Mali, FGC is associated with serious gynecological and obstetric complications. In 1998, the National Center of Scientific and Technological Research of the Mali Ministry of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research conducted an evaluation of programs to eradicate FGC. The study assessed the work of three national nongovernmental organizations working in Bamako and five regions of Mali. These NGOs had attempted to persuade traditional practitioners of FGC (“excisors”) to abandon the practice. All three NGOs employed outreach workers to educate excisors and community members …