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Abstract
Female genital cutting (FGC), also known as female circumcision (FC) and female genital mutilation (FGM), involves the cutting or alteration of the female genitalia for social rather than medical reasons. More than 130 million girls and women worldwide have undergone FGM, and each year nearly 2 million girls are at risk. FGM is known to be practiced in nations in the African continent, in a few countries in the Arab and Malay peninsulas, among some minority communities in Asia, and among migrants in Europe, Australia, and North America. The practice of FGM is deeply entrenched within Egyptian culture. The Egyptian Demographic and Health Survey 2000 (EDHS) found that FGM is ”virtually universal among women of reproductive age in Egypt”. The reasons for the continuation of FGM vary according to the socio-cultural context where it exists. The major justifications are moral or religious, virginity, bride price or family honor, anatomic/aesthetic, need for social integration, prevent child mortality, and hygiene. Going deeper into the reasons for women’s circumcision, it was found that fundamentally men were involved. Any effort to abolish FGM must take into account beliefs that men prefer women to be circumcised. Those beliefs are widely held by Egyptian women. There is paucity of research on male attitudes and beliefs towards FGM. in Egypt and no data are available about similar attitudes among married males in Alexandria. The aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of married men towards FGM. The study design was a crosssectional one. The study population was the married males (n=360) in the age range horn 18-60 years attending five outpatient clinics of Health Insurance in Alexandria govemorate that had the highest number of attendance. Data was collected through a structured interview. A pre-coded questionnaire was designed to collect data about: the personal data, socioeconomic level, men’s knowledge, beliefs and attitudes toward FGM, practice of FGM in the families, knowledge about the CNN film and its impact, wife’s opinion towards FGM and finally the respondent sources of knowledge, their interest to get more information and their opinion about the best ways to discuss such a sensitive issue. The main results were: - Regarding the characteristics of the sample, the age of men ranged horn 23 to 59 years, with a mean of 44.6 years; Moslems constituted 94.4 of the sample.