Female Genital Cutting WisdomCard™
Our Guides and Physician Review team have organized the Top 10 Health Resources on Female Genital Cutting and compiled helpful research notes below.
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: Female Genital Cutting
4woman.gov - Female Genital Cutting
- World Health Organization (WHO): Female Genital Mutilation who.int - Female Genital Mutilation
- United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA): Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting unfpa.org - Ending Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- UNICEF: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting unicef.org - Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project: Female Genital Cutting fgmnetwork.org - Female Genital Cutting
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Research Notes on Female Genital Cutting
Female genital mutilation/cutting is the partial or total removal of the female external genitalia for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons. It is estimated that more than 130 million girls and women alive today have undergone FGM/C, primarily in Africa and, to a lesser extent, in some countries in the Middle East.
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What is Female Genital Cutting?
- Wikipedia: Female Genital Cutting
- Population Council: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
- UNICEF: Female Genital Cutting Definition
- WHO: What is Female Genital Mutilation?
What Are The Complications of Female Genital Cutting?
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services: What are the Health Problems Caused by FGC?
- UNFPA: Immediate Complications | Long-Term Consequences
- WHO: Health Consequences of FGM
What Are The Types, and statistics of Female Genital Cutting?
- The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project: Type I, II, III | Population Groups Statistics
- World Health Organization (via The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project): Classification
- UNICEF: Prevelance of FGM/C Among Women 15-49, By Place of Residence
Foundations and Support Groups on Female Genital Cutting
- The Female Genital Cutting Education and Networking Project: Education and Support
- Rainbo: Health & Rights for African Women
- World Health Organization: Research and Education
- Amnesty International: Human Rights
- UNICEF: Health, Education, Equality, Protection, Advance Humanity
Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Female Genital Cutting
- Journal of the American Medical Association: Female Genital Mutilation
- PubMed Central: Female Genital Cutting
- Google Scholar: Female Genital Mutilation
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- Contributor: Elisa Carter
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
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Meet our contributors and reviewers
- Contributor: Elisa Carter
- Reviewer: Nicole Kinsey
- Supervised by: The OrganizedWisdom Physician Review Team
- Redirects: Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, FGC, Female Circumcision
- Last update: Oct. 15, 2009
Each WisdomCard is handcrafted by our team of physician-guided health advocates. Our goal is to make it easy for you to find the most useful health resources for any health topic by filtering out spam and bad links.
