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Article: AFRICA-HEALTH: FGM CHECKS INTO HOSPITALS
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- December 9, 2004
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Fredrick Nzwili for WOMENSENEWS
Inter Press Service English News Wire
12-09-2004
NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec. 9, 2004 (IPS/GIN) -- Activists working to
end female genital mutilation in Africa find themselves in a bitter
phase of the struggle. Now that some traditional practitioners have
disavowed it, many doctors and nurses are taking up the illegal
practice. And these are people that activists thought were their
friends.
"With activists campaigning about the unhygienic conditions in
which traditional circumcisers carry out their trade, some parents
are taking their daughter to the modern doctors," says Efua
Dorkenoo, a Ghanaian activist against FGM.
"This is actually taking people centuries back," ...