Economic status,a salient motivator for medicalisation of FGM in sub-Saharan Africa: Myth or reality from 13 national demographic health surveys (2020)
This study is a Explanatory research regarding All FGM/C with the following characteristics:
Author(s): I Morhason-Bello,A Fagbamigbe,Y Kareem ,O Ojengbede
FGM/C Type(s): All
Health area of focus: None.
Objective: to hypothesise if the risk of having medicalised FGM by girls and women is associated with the socio-economic status their household belongs
Study Population: relied on 2010-2019 Demographic and Health surveys data
Findings: from the analyses of data from eleven countries in SSA that FGM performed by healthcare workers had a direct relationship with the level of socioeconomic status irrespective of country of location and place of residence. Specifically,the report of FGM performed by health worker was commonest among women from the highest wealth quintiles compared to those with the poorest wealth quintiles. Similarly,medicalised FGM also had a direct relationship with the level of education of the women with the highest report among those with higher -post-secondary -education
Geographical coverage
Region(s):Western Africa,Eastern Africa
Country(ies):Burkina Faso,Côte d’Ivoire,Ethiopia,Gambia,Guinea,Kenya,Mali,Niger,Nigeria,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Tanzania,Togo