Welcome. If you are a health professional caring for women with FGM in New Zealand, here are some key resources and guidelines that might be helpful.
Background to FGM
Click here for some background context to FGM including FGM types, prevalance and beliefs sustaining the practice.
Resources for Health Professionals
Click here for resources that can assist caring for women with FGM. These include NZ recommended guidelines for deinfibulation, antenatal, labour and delivery and postnatal care; FGM pamplets for health professionals and recommended research and related links.
NZ Law and FGM
If you are concerned that a child is at risk of FGM click here; for information on the NZ law and FGM click here; for the NZ child protection recommended guiding principles for suspected and imminent FGM click here.
Health Complications
Click here for information on short term, long term, sexual, childbirth and psychosocial complications of FGM.
FGM Workforce Development
If you or your team would like workforce development on FGM in New Zealand and FGM clinical care, please email us at hello@fgm.co.nz, and we will be in touch to discuss your training needs.