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African Women’s Clinic - information about deinfibulation: a procedure to open your vagina
This fact sheet is for people who have had traditional cutting and their vagina closed. If you want to have it opened (this is called deinfibulation), the African Women's Clinic can help. This information explains what will happen on the day of the procedure and how to take care of yourself afterward.
- Organisation:
- Royal Women's Hospital Victoria
- Topic:
- Women's health, Sexual health
- Target audience:
- Women
- Service area:
- VIC
- Published:
- March 2025
- Last reviewed:
- June 2025
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