Module 4
Health sector response to addressing FGM: Advocacy, strategic health planning and FGM Research – overview of ethical guidance
Training course in female genital mutilation 2023
April 12, 2023 - Geneva
Tasks
- Watch the video presentation titled: Comprehensive health action plans which address FGM. Alternatively go over the slide set.
 - Watch the video presentation titled: Ethical considerations in research on FGM. Alternatively go over the slide set.
 - Assignment: There are two assignments for this module, MCQ and a group work.
- Complete and submit your answers to the MCQs for the module. You will receive the link to the MCQs by email.
 - Complete and submit your Group paperwork assignment. You will find the assignment for this week’s module at this link:
 
 
- Female genital mutilation fact sheet. World Health Organization; 2022.
 - Ethical considerations in research on female genital mutilation. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.
 - UNAIDS, UNDP, UNFPA, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNIFEM, WHO, FIGO, ICN, IOM, WCPT, WMA, MWIA. Global strategy to stop health-care providers from performing female genital mutilation. World Health Organization; 2010.
 - World Health Organization. Person-centred communication for female genital mutilation prevention: a facilitator’s guide for training health-care providers. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2022.
 
Additional learning resources
- WHO FGM Cost Calculator. World Health Organization; 2020.
 - Pallitto CC, Ahmed W. The role of the health sector in contributing to the abandonment of female genital mutilation. Med (N Y). 2021 May 14;2(5):485-489.