Fact: Procedures can cause severe bleeding and problems urinating, and later cysts, infections, infertility as well as complications in childbirth increased risk of newborn deaths.
Fact: About 140 million girls and women worldwide are currently living with the consequences of FGM.
Fact: FGM is mostly carried out on young girls sometime between infancy and age 15.
Fact:In Africa an estimated 101 million girls 10 years old and above have undergone FGM.
(WHO, 2013)
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