{"id":10934,"date":"2018-11-13T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/?p=10934"},"modified":"2018-11-13T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T10:45:12","slug":"female-genital-mutilationcutting-rates-have-seen-a-huge-and-significant-decline-among-african-girls-in-the-last-2-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/2018\/11\/13\/female-genital-mutilationcutting-rates-have-seen-a-huge-and-significant-decline-among-african-girls-in-the-last-2-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Female genital mutilation\/cutting rates have seen a \u201chuge and significant decline\u201d among African girls in the last 2 decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-46128938?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&amp;utm_campaign=b9df1eaff3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_11_10_09_17&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-b9df1eaff3-893211\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8230;Using data from 29 countries and going back to 1990, the report&#8217;s authors found that the biggest fall in cutting was in East Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The prevalence rate there dropped from 71% of girls under 14 in 1995, to 8% in 2016&#8230;\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gh.bmj.com\/content\/3\/5\/e000549\"><strong>BMJ<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\"><strong><span class=\"highwire-citation-authors\"><span class=\"highwire-citation-author first\"><span class=\"nlm-surname\">Kandala<\/span> N<\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author\"><span class=\"nlm-surname\">Ezejimofor<\/span> MC<\/span>, <span class=\"highwire-citation-author\"><span class=\"nlm-surname\">Uthman<\/span> OA<\/span><\/span><span class=\"citation-et\">, et al<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"highwire-cite-title\"><strong>Secular trends in the prevalence of female genital mutilation\/cutting among girls: a systematic analysis<\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"highwire-cite-metadata bmjj-citation-metadata\"><strong><span class=\"highwire-cite-metadata-journal highwire-cite-metadata\">BMJ Global Health <\/span><span class=\"highwire-cite-metadata-year highwire-cite-metadata\">2018;<\/span><span class=\"highwire-cite-metadata-volume highwire-cite-metadata\">3:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"highwire-cite-metadata-pages highwire-cite-metadata\"><strong>e000549.<\/strong> <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC &#8220;&#8230;&#8230;Using data from 29 countries and going back to 1990, the report&#8217;s authors found that the biggest fall in cutting was in East Africa. The prevalence rate there dropped from 71% of girls under 14 in 1995, to 8% in 2016&#8230;\u2026&#8221; BMJ Kandala N, Ezejimofor MC, Uthman OA, et al Secular trends in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10934\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.utoledo.edu\/disastermedicine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}