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Ìý Female genital mutilation 24 September 2004 Ìý
How an award winning clinic is helping women and girls who have suffered Female Genital Mutilation

The practice of female mutilation (FGM) has been illegal in Britain since 1985. But in many communities here and abroad it is still accepted and condoned.

Women who have experienced FGM are twice as likely to die in childbirth and three times as likely to give birth to a stillborn child. Ninety nine per cent of Somali females undergo the most severe type of mutilation - infibulation.

The African Well Women's Clinic in Leyton, north-east London, focuses on the health care of these women who have undergone genital mutilation. Recently it received a Queen's Nursing Innovation and Creative Practice Award for care of refugees and asylum seekers.

Angela Robson went along to the clinic to find out more.





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