Female genital cutting in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: Changing attitudes?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 159-165

  Msuya, Sia E ^a,b   Mbizvo, Elizabeth ^a   Hussain, Akhtar ^a   Sundby, Johanne ^a   Sam, Noel E ^b   Stray Pedersen, Babill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Female genital cutting; HIV; RTIs; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL INFLUENCE; GENDER ISSUE; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; WOMENS HEALTH;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE CIRCUMCISION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; NORMAL HUMAN; PARITY; PELVIS; PREVALENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA; URBAN AREA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; SOCIAL CHANGE; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION;

TANZANIA;

CHRISTIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

EID: 0036173763     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2002.00838.x     Document Type: Article

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