Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in the United States

More than 500. 000 women and girls in the United States are at risk of genital mutilation. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.

“The estimated increase was wholly a result of rapid growth in the number of immigrants from FGM/C-practicing countries living in the United States and not from increases in FGM/C prevalence in those countries. “

Goldberg H, Stupp P, Okoroh E, Besera G, Goodman D, Danel I. Female genital mutilation/cutting in the United States: updated estimates of women and girls at risk, 2012. Public Health Reports. March-April 2016.

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