Over 230 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation, most of whom live in Africa, according to a report issued on Friday by the United Nations children's agency.
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Viewers of the BBC series Call the Midwife may remember an episode in season six where Nurse Dyer encounters a patient with a striking condition: she lacks any visible genitalia.