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  • Title: The UNHCR works with the IAC in the eradication of FGM among Somali refugees / returnees in Ethiopia.
    Journal: Newsl Inter Afr Comm Tradit Pract Affect Health Women Child; 1993 Dec; (15):8. PubMed ID: 12288470.
    Abstract:
    The Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children has joined with the UN High Commission for Refugees to develop a training program for midwives and nurses in order to eradicate female genital mutilation from the population of Somali refugees in Ethiopia. The training program was devised after it was found that the refugees were practicing infibulation, the most radical form of female genital mutilation. 52 midwives and 6 nurses have been trained in 3 sensitization programs which featured the history, geographical distribution, and types of female genital mutilation. After a fourth scheduled program, impact evaluation will take place. Informal interviews show that the information passed on by the midwives is gradually being assimilated by members of both sexes who are beginning to speak out in condemnation of infibulation.
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