Assessment of the prevalence of female circumcision below 15 years in Sudan

Nadhum Al-Any, Ban; Al-Asefya Hasab Alla, Tage

	Assessment of the prevalence of female circumcision below 15 years in Sudan
IRAQI JOURNALOF COMMUNITY MEDICINE
Article 1, Volume 28, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 156-161
Authors
Ban Nadhum Al-Any; Tage Al-Asefya Hasab Alla
Abstract
Background: "All procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons . The practice is an ethnic marker, rooted in gender inequality, ideas about purity, modesty and aesthetics, and attempts to control women's sexuality. Around 125 million women and girls in Africa and the Middle East have undergone Female Genital Mutation also occurs in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Syria & Oman. Objectives: Estimation of the prevalence of circumcision among girls under 15 years and the factors influencing it in Sudan. Methods: A descriptive study to determine the prevalence of circumcision among girls under 15 years and the factors influencing it that ( 90 ) families were selected by systematic random sampling from Talbab as a rural area of Bahri state & ( 90 ) families from AL- Safai as an urban area of Bahri state in Khartoum city during 2010 . Results: The study revealed that most of parents were educated in Talbab region while all of parents were educated in AL-Safia region . Less than quarter of girls were circumcised of graduated fathers and half of them were circumcised of high school fathers while all of them were circumcised of primary school fathers in Talbab region as urban area , in AL- Safai region as rural area there were no females circumcised of graduated fathers & only15% were circumcised of high school fathers while all of girls were circumcised for completed primary school fathers. More than half of females were circumcised in rural area as Sunni type while decreased to 20% in urban as Pharaonic type .The main causes of circumcision were traditions , social norms, purity in both areas while mother was the main influencing factor in urban area & grandmother in the rural area. About half of the circumcised cases were done by the midwives in rural area & more than half by practiced traditional attendance in urban area . Most of mothers had education about the complications of circumcision . For complications most of the girls had bleeding, dysurea & infection in both areas. There were on death cases in both areas . Conclusion: Still Circumcision of young girls is a problem in Sudan that mostly in rural areas which effects by education of fathers , believes of mothers & grandmothers that the traditions , social norms & purity the most causes of circumcision.
Keywords
girls under; circumcision

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