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Prevalence and factors associated with female genital mutilation among women of reproductive age in the Bawku municipality and Pusiga District of northern Ghana

BACKGROUND: Globally, three million girls are at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) and an estimated 200 million girls and women in the world have undergone FGM. While the overall prevalence of FGM in Ghana is 4%, studies have shown that the overall prevalence in the Upper East Region is 38%, w...

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Autores principales:	Sakeah, Evelyn, Debpuur, Cornelius, Oduro, Abraham Rexford, Welaga, Paul, Aborigo, Raymond, Sakeah, James Kotuah, Moyer, Cheryl A.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2018
Materias:	Research Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6145319/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30227845 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0643-8

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