FGM – Poster for Health Workers
An estimated 18% of FGM/C cases are being performed by professionally trained health workers. This number has risen due to the widespread growth of knowledge about the possible health problems associated with FGM/C. Families are now turning to health workers, feeling that their training will lessen the harm to the girls undergoing the procedure. This poster clearly states that health workers performing FGM/C are in violation of their basic promise to “do no harm.”
Source: World Health Organization
Date of Publication: March 25, 2019
SIMILIAR RESOURCES
Tools
Examples
- Toolkit for Engaging Midwives in the Global Campaign to End FGM
- Fact Sheet on FGM
- Health Risks of FGM
- Behavior Change to End FGM
- The REPLACE Approach: Supporting Communities to End FGM
- Do Your Own Survey: How to Collect Data on FGM
- Global Strategy to Stop Health-Care Providers from Performing Female Genital Mutilation
- WHO Guidelines on the Management of Health Complications from Female Genital Mutilation
- Responding to Female Genital Mutilation: A Guide for Key Professionals
- Manual on Social Norms and Change