Publication: Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast
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2014
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BMC Women's Health. Vol.14, (2014),13
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Peltzer, Karl, Supa Pengpid Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast. BMC Women's Health. Vol.14, (2014),13. Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/2847
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Female genital mutilation and intimate partner violence in the Ivory Coast
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Background: Serious forms of violence against women include Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Intimate
Partner Violence (IPV). The aim of this study was to determine if FGM is associated with IPV, using data obtained
from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2012 in Ivory Coast.
Methods: Participants for this study were drawn from the 2011-12 Ivory Coast Demographic and Health Survey
(CDHS), a nationally representative sample of 10060 women aged 15 to 49 years. The analysis of this paper is
restricted to the sample of women who responded to the FGM and domestic violence modules (N = 5005).
Results: The lifetime prevalence of physical violence was 24.8%, sexual violence, 5.7%, and emotional violence,
19.0%, and the prevalence of any lifetime IPV was 32.1%. In all, 40.6% reported female genital cutting or mutilation
(FGM). Women reporting FGM were two times as likely to experience sexual IPV (AOR: 1.96, CI: 1.29-2.98), while
other subtypes of IPV were higher in women reporting FGM but they were not significant. Of the socio-demographic
covariates, urban residence and having a primary education were associated with most subtypes of IPV, while being a
Muslim seemed protective from any type, sexual and emotional IPV. Having seen the father beating the mother was
positively associated with most IPV subtypes, and having been diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI) in
the previous 12 months was associated with physical and sexual IPV.
Conclusion: Significant rates of FGM and IPV were found among this sample of Ivorian women calling for the need for
multiple strategies to reduce FGM and IPV.