Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) became less common globally, but when it did occur, it was increasingly carried out by ...

Healthcare professionals should not perform female genital mutilation (FGM) as this legitimises the practice and hampers efforts to end it, the World Health Organization has said in new guidance.1 ...

Urgent measures are needed to curtail the rising “medicalization” of female genital mutilation (FGM) and to engage health ...

Traditionally carried out by traditional practitioners, FGM is now alarmingly being performed by trained health professionals in several countries.

Urgent measures are needed to curtail the rising "medicalization" of female genital mutilation (FGM) and to engage health workers to prevent the practice, according to a new guideline published today ...

The World Health Organization said on Monday it wanted a code of conduct to bar medical workers from performing female ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi directed prosecutors to investigate certain gender-affirming surgical procedures, which she ...

Bondi’s directive refers to gender-affirming surgery as “female genital mutilation” but doesn’t supersede current laws on ...

Bondi also targets pharmaceutical providers for what she describes as misleading or off-label use of their drugs and hormones ...

Discover the WHO's guidelines on female genital mutilation and how health practitioners can support survivors and promote change ...

Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare workers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) ...