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Guidance. Female genital mutilation: guidelines to protect children and women

UK Home Office, Department for Education, and The Rt Hon Lynne Featherstone MP. 2011 Guidance. Female genital mutilation: guidelines to protect children and women These updated guidelines support and assist frontline professionals, such as teachers, health professionals, police officers and social workers, in safeguarding children and protecting adults from the abuses associated with FGM. This guidelinesContinue reading “Guidance. Female genital mutilation: guidelines to protect children and women”

Female genital mutilation: Experience in a West London clinic.

J Obstet Gynaecol. 2007 May;27(4):416-9. Female genital mutilation: Experience in a West London clinic. Gordon H, Comerasamy H, Morris NH. ABSTRACT The Wellwoman African Clinic, Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK. z.whitlock@imperial.ac.uk In 1997, a new clinic was established at the Central Middlesex Hospital to serve the needs of a mainly Somali population who had sufferedContinue reading “Female genital mutilation: Experience in a West London clinic.”

Bewley et al.: Female Genital Mutilation

BMJ. 2010 Jun 2;340:c2728. doi: 10.1136/bmj.c2728. Female genital mutilation. Bewley S, Creighton S, Momoh C. Comment in BMJ. 2010; 341: c3888. SEE EXTRACT Paediatricians should resist its medicalisation Female genital mutilation is defined by the World Health Organization as any procedure that involves partial or total removal of the external genitalia or other injury to theContinue reading “Bewley et al.: Female Genital Mutilation”