Introductory Primer to FGM for healthcare professionals:

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Recommended Resources:

1. The Royal Women’s Hospital - Deinfibulation Timing and Technique Guideline (2020)

2. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists - Female Genital Mutilation and its Management Guideline (2015)

3. The Royal Women’s Hospital - Female Genital Mutilation / Cutting – Guideline for Care (2020)

4. WHO guidelines on the management of health complications from female genital mutilation (2016)

Lead Authors:

References:

1.   https://www.thestar.com/news/fgm/2017/07/17/ontario-doctors-have-repaired-hundreds-of-cases-of-fgm-in-the-last-7-years.html

2.   https://thewomens.r.worldssl.net/images/uploads/downloadable-records/clinical-guidelines/deinfibulation-timing-and-technique_280720.pdf

3.     World Health Organization. (n.d.). Female genital mutilation. World Health Organization. Retrieved October 25, 2022, from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation 

4.     Chalmers, B., & Omer-Hashi, K. (2002). What Somali women say about giving birth in Canada. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 20(4), 267–282. https://doi.org/10.1080/0264683021000033183   

5.     Spitzer, D. L. (2006). The impact of policy on Somali Refugee Women in Canada. Refuge: Canada's Journal on Refugees, 47–54. https://doi.org/10.25071/1920-7336.21354 

6.     Khanlou, N., Haque, N., Skinner, A., Mantini, A., & Kurtz Landy, C. (2017). Scoping Review on Maternal Health among Immigrant and Refugee Women in Canada: Prenatal, Intrapartum, and Postnatal Care. Journal of pregnancy, 2017, 8783294. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/8783294

7.     Elmi, H.-S. (2016, March 2). Somali Women's Experiences with Obstetrician Care Providers During Childbirth in Canada. Simon Fraser University Summit Research Repository. Retrieved October 25, 2022, from https://summit.sfu.ca/item/17068

8.     Jacobson, D., Glazer, E., Mason, R., Duplessis, D., Blom, K., Du Mont, J., Jassal, N., & Einstein, G. (2018). The lived experience of female genital cutting (FGC) in Somali-Canadian women's daily lives. PloS one, 13(11), e0206886. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0206886

9.   https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation