This educational video provides information on surgical deinfibulation, a procedure aimed at re-opening the vaginal introitus after infibulation, a type of genital mutilation that aims to narrow the vaginal opening, and to remedy the problems that infibulation causes.

This tool aims to illustrate, with images and in several languages, ​​how this intervention takes place. This intervention aims  to reduce complications related to infibulation (for example, facilitating the passage of urine and menstruation, reducing the pain of vaginal penetrative intercourse or allowing vaginal childbirth).

This tool adopts an informed consent approach and gives  the necessary information for a person to make a decision that takes into account all the consequences related to the intervention. This intervention can indeed have psychological impacts and complications for the person undergoing it, and they should be informed of those. We must therefore remain open and attentive to the person's experience in order to remain culturally sensitive to everything that surrounds the intervention.

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