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Risk Factors And Impacts Of Female Genital Mutilation Practice In Senegal, Mame Kani Diop
Risk Factors And Impacts Of Female Genital Mutilation Practice In Senegal, Mame Kani Diop
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INTRODUCTION: Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) has significant negative physical complications on girls and women and its persistence is linked to lack of education, poverty and other socio-demographic characteristics such as region, type of place of residence, religion, and ethnicity. FGM is extremely dangerous. Even though FGM carries cultural marks, its primary objectives are social, sexual, and economic control of female sexuality. Despite the global effort to eradicate the practice and the evidence of its detrimental health consequences, FGM is still prevalent in Senegalese practicing communities.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study is to investigate the risk factors associated with the …