Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 9, Issue 18 , Pages 135-142 , November 2001

Community-based survey on female genital excision in Faranah District, Guinea

  • Daman Keita
  • ,
  • David Blankhart

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence David Blankhart, P.O. Box 4345, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. Tel/Fax: 599 9 737 3392.

References 

  1. USAID  . In: Symposium on Female Genital Mutilation . 5th ed.. Final Report of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Female Genital Mutilation . 1999;p. 17–18 Washington DC, June
  2. Althaus FA . Excision: rite of passage or violation of women's rights? . International Family Planning Perspectives . 1997;23(3):130–133
  3. Direction Préfectorale de la Sante de Faranah  . Rapport du Comité Technique Préfectoral de la Santé Faranah . July 1999;
  4. Demographic and Health Survey-1999 . Calverton MD: Macro International Inc.,; May 2000;
  5. World Health Organization  . Female Genital Mutilation . Geneva: WHO; 1996;
  6. N'faly Camara, sociologist, Faranah Agricultural College (personal communication).
  7. Toubia N . Female Genital Mutilation: A Call for Global Action . New York: RAINB♀; 1995;
  8. Adango P , Akeongo P , Binka F , et al.   Female genital mutilation: socio-cultural factors that influence the practice in the Kassena Nankana district, Ghana . African Journal of Reproductive Health . 1998;2(2):25–36

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Reproductive Health Matters
Volume 9, Issue 18 , Pages 135-142 , November 2001