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Female genital mutilation (FGM), where the clitoris and labia of a girl are cut or removed, can often lead to lifelong health complications, serious problems during childbirth and painful, unsatisfying sex. New research in the British Medical Journal suggests that between 1990 and 2017, the prevalence of FGM among girls up to the age of 14 fell sharply in most regions of Africa. Ngianga-Bakwin Kandala is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Northumbria in the UK and the lead author of the study. (Image: Girl in northeast Uganda, Credit: Getty Images.)