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Eliminating harmful traditional practices affecting health of women and children
Broader:
Eliminating unnecessary practices
Reducing tradition-bound subordination of women
Strengthening comprehensive health care for women
Preventing children from harm
Narrower:
Balancing human sex ratio
Informing about womens health hazards
Establishing a minimum age for marriage
Improving traditional child birth practices
Campaigning against childhood genital mutilation
Problems:
Female genital mutilation
Female infanticide
Premature marriage
Prohibitive marriage dowry
Values:
Harm
Health
Organizations:
Inter-African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children
PATH
Subjects:
Society
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Women
Society
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Infants
Societal Problems
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Hazards
Health Care
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Health
Recreation
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Folk traditions
Type Classification:
E: Emanations of other strategies
Related UN Sustainable Development Goals: