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International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation – join the conversation - by Wendy Nicholson

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Today is International Day of Zero Tolerance to FGM, lead organisations including PHE, DH and NHS England have joined forces to support the day – however, it’s more than one single day. FGM isn’t just an international issue; FGM affected …

FGM prevention role in community healthcare and Mandatory Reporting (MR) duty one year on by Vanessa Lodge

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Female genital mutilation affects around 200 million women across the world and almost all of these women will have been cut as children, many of them at school age.  But FGM isn’t just an international issue, many young girls here …

The African Women’s Clinic: Health promoting practitioners supporting women with female genital mutilation by David Foster

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You might remember the scene in the film Shirley Valentine in which Shirley recounts the discovery of her clitoris. I do because I was watching it with my mother. I didn’t exactly squirm with embarrassment but it did generate a …

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