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Persistent female genital mutilation despite its illegality: Narratives from women and men in northern Ghana

BACKGROUND: Globally, an estimated two million women have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and approximately four percent of women who have been circumcised live in Ghana. In the Bawku Municipality and Pusiga District, sixty one percent of women have undergone the procedure. This study the...

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Autores principales: Sakeah, Evelyn, Debpuur, Cornelius, Aborigo, Raymond Akawire, Oduro, Abraham Rexford, Sakeah, James Kotuah, Moyer, Cheryl A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6476474/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31009478
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214923