Dar es Salaam, Feb. 9 -- TANZANIA: POLITICAL will has been mentioned as among the major helpful factors towards dramatic drop in the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practices in the country.

The stakeholders made the appraisal on Thursday here during the 2022 Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey and Malaria Indicator Survey (TDHS-MIS) results dissemination to Lake Zone health service providers, which was organised by National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).

According to them, it is the political will that attracts collaborative efforts, engaging a number of foreign donors, as well as local non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to support the war against FGM and all forms of Gender- Based Violence (GBV) and dropping from 35.4 per cent in ...