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It is estimated that more than 130 million women, worldwide, have undergone some type of . Six thousand young girls go through this operation daily and an additional two million are at risk. , also know as, female circumsicion has become a major social and healt ....

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.... by burning of the clitoris and surrounding tissue. There are many health risks and complications associated with these operations such as; hemorrhage, shock, painful scars, keloid formation, clitoral cysts, chronic urinary infection, chronic pelvic infections, painful menstruation, severe pain during intercourse, sterility, kidney stones, sexual dysfunction, depression and complications during childbirth. Female genital mutilation is usually performed on young girls prior to puberty. It is practiced in more than twenty countries in Africa, in Oman, Southern Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East and in Indonesia and Malaysia ....