Factors associated with the practice of and intention to perform female genital mutilation on a female child among married women in Abakaliki Nigeria.

Cosmas Kenan OnahEdmund Ndudi OssaiOkechukwu Matthew NwachukwuGloria Ekwutosi NwankwoHyacinth Ogbonna MbamBenedict Ndubueze Azuogu

Published in: BMC women's health (2023)

Women who underwent FGM have a greater propensity to perpetuate the practice but attaining at least secondary education promotes its abandonment. Targeted intervention to dispel any harboured erroneous beliefs of the sexual, health, or socio-cultural benefits of FGM and improved public legislation with enforcement against FGM are recommended.

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