Integrating female genital mutilation content into nursing and midwifery curricula: a practical guide

Overview

This guide is intended to promote a global health sector response to FGM for the provision of high-quality prevention and care services to women and girls at risk of FGM or living with the consequences of FGM. It also aims to support the systematic development of pre-service and in-service FGM content for midwifery and nursing education curricula which are relevant to context and need. This document could also be used for training materials of other cadres of health-care providers.

Curriculum planners can use this document to update an existing curriculum to include FGM prevention and care, or to develop a new one if a suitable curriculum does not exist. The process described here will follow the same steps in both cases; however, some adaptations would be made depending on whether it is an initial curriculum development process or an update. It is intended that this document be used as appropriate for a particular context to ensure midwives and nurses are able to provide the care that women and girls need.