Prevalence of female genital cutting among Egyptian girls

• Main Authors: Mohammed A Tag-Eldin (Author), Mohsen A Gadallah (Author), Mahmoud N Al-Tayeb (Author), Mostafa Abdel-Aty (Author), Esmat Mansour (Author), Mona Sallem (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: Female genital cutting (FGC) is the collective name given to traditional practices that involve partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons. In Egypt, the result of the Demographic Health Survey in 2000 revealed that...