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faculty of medicine from 1977 to 1981. As part of this project, she conducted the first large-scale survey of women who had experienced FGM, interviewing 3,210 women and 1,545 men in five
Sudanese provinces with a high prevalence of
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as "pharaonic circumcision". A compromise was reached and her sister ended up with an intermediate form that was nevertheless very similar to infibulation.
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Female Circumcision in the Sudan: Prevalence, Complications, Attitudes and Change
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Female Circumcision in the Sudan: Prevalence, Complications, Attitudes and Change
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Rushwan, Hamid; Corry, J. M.; El Dareer, Asma; Bushra, Nadia (1983).
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Female 'Circumcision' in Africa: Culture Controversy and Change
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Woman, Why Do You Weep: Circumcision and its Consequences
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409:"Clitoridectomy and Infibulation"
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420:Forbes, L. E. (February 1997).
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592:Pelvic inflammatory disease
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35:University of Khartoum
618:Prevalence by country
602:Vesicovaginal fistula
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483:American Ethnologist
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740:Fran Hosken
648:New Zealand
567:Dyspareunia
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281:Forbes 1997
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1025:Categories
611:By country
297:Zabus 2004
268:References
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67:Background
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643:Kurdistan
437:0952-049X
958:Moolaadé
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862:FORWARD
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