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2008 Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health - 11/18/08
Read a presentation entitled Research on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation from 2008 the Global Ministerial Forum on Reaserch for Health where senior staff members from UNICEF, WHO, UNESCO as well as researchers from Kenya, Mali and Senegal presented findings from studies documenting the prevalence and trends of female genital mutilation, health complications related to the practice, estimates of costs of treating some of these complications, social determinants of the practice and decision-making related to maintaining or abandoning the practice.