Have we made progress in Somalia after 30 years of interventions? Attitudes toward female circumcision among people in the Hargeisa district

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gele, Abdi A ^a   Bø, Bente P ^a   Sundby, Johanne ^b  

^a OSLO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION; HUMAN; MALE; SOMALIA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CIRCUMCISION, FEMALE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOMALIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84875322292     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-122     Document Type: Article

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