Title |
Have we made progress in Somalia after 30 years of interventions? Attitudes toward female circumcision among people in the Hargeisa district
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Published in |
BMC Research Notes, March 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1756-0500-6-122 |
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Authors |
Abdi A Gele, Bente P Bø, Johanne Sundby |
Abstract |
Female circumcision is a major public health problem that largely contributes to the ill-health of women and their children globally. Accordingly, the international community is committed to take all possible measures to abolish the practice that is internationally considered to be absolutely intolerable. While the practice is a social tradition shared by people in 28 African countries, there is no country on earth where FC is more prevalent than in Somalia. Yet, since the early 1990s, there is no quantitative study that has investigated whether the perception towards the practice among Somali men and women in Somalia has improved or not. Thus, this cross-sectional quantitative study examines the attitudes toward the practice among people in Hargeisa, Somalia. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 3 | 50% |
Unknown | 3 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 4 | 67% |
Scientists | 2 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 94 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Student > Bachelor | 17 | 18% |
Student > Master | 15 | 16% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 10% |
Researcher | 7 | 7% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 6 | 6% |
Other | 17 | 18% |
Unknown | 23 | 24% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
---|---|---|
Medicine and Dentistry | 27 | 29% |
Social Sciences | 14 | 15% |
Psychology | 8 | 9% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 5 | 5% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 3 | 3% |
Other | 9 | 10% |
Unknown | 28 | 30% |