Sølvi Taraldsen

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Sølvi Taraldsen er ph.d., spesialist i fødselshjelp og kvinnesykdommer og seniorrådgiver i Helsedirektoratet.

Articles by Sølvi Taraldsen

Female genital cutting in women living in Norway – consequences and treatment

Sølvi Taraldsen,
Katrine M. Owe,
Anne Sejersted Bødtker,
Ida Waagsbø Bjørntvedt,
Birgitte Midhaug Eide,
Marit Sandberg,
Cecilie Therese Hagemann,
Pål Øian,
Siri Vangen,
Ingvil Krarup Sørbye

02.11.2021: Globally, more than 200 million girls and women have undergone FGC (1). This practice follows ethnic lines and is primarily embedded in culture, not religion (2). It involves interventions of varying extent and is classified into three main types (Figure 1) (3). FGC types I and II are the most...