Health Care : Current Reviews

Female genital mutilation (FGM)

Euro Health Care and Fitness Summit

September 01-03, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Carmen Ballesteros Meseguer

University of Murcia, Spain

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Health Care: Current Reviews

Abstract:

Female genital mutilation (FGM) comprises all procedures involving partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury for non-medical reasons. The importance of the issue is that it is a social problem of great magnitude, not because the number of women affected, for the serious consequences that these women suffer as a result of practice and constitutes a violation of the rights of women and of girls. While most women with FGM live in 29 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, due to migration procedure has become a pandemic, as it has spread throughout the world. In Spain there are 17,000 girls at risk of being mutilated and women from sub-Saharan countries have physical, obstetric, sexual, psychological and social problems arising from this practice. Addressing this problem in public services in general and from nursing in particular presents a significant challenge due to the cultural connotations so ingrained in the countries of origin. So identify the knowledge, attitudes and experiences regarding FGM a group of mutilated women, is an important objective to manage addressing this problem. The research results have allowed us to contextualize the experience of FGM from female participants, determine the implications for your health, determine the influence of FGM in sexual and reproductive lives, and analyze the factors involved in the perpetuation of this practice.

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Email: carmenbm@um.es