Reuters, 03/12 14:54 CET
By Kizito Makoye
DAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Three Tanzanian universities are offering a new course on female genital mutilation (FGM) to train health care professionals how to is still widely practised although illegal.
The course, to be taught at the University of Dodoma, Muhimbili University of Heath and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC), makes Tanzania the second country in Africa to offer such training after Ghana.
FGM, which involves total or
partial removal of the external female genitalia, has been illegal in
the east African nation since 1998 but the law is poorly enforced and
thousands of girls are affected every year.
More than 7.9 million girls and women in Tanzania are believed to have undergone FGM
which causes numerous health problems. Some girls bleed to death or die
from infections, while others die later in life from childbirth
complications.
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Source: Euronews
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