Community-Driven Strategies to Address the Health Impacts of Female Genital Cutting

This spring, Founder and CEO Doris Mukangu had the opportunity to present at the PEGASUS 2026 Conference in Toronto, Canada, and share the work of our Save Our Sisters (S.O.S.) Initiative, a community-driven effort to help women access the care and dignity they deserve.

The work behind Save Our Sisters

Developed through CDC-funded research, in partnership with NORC at the University of Chicago as part of the Women’s Health Needs Study (WHNS), the S.O.S. Initiative helps women living with the long-term health impacts of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) access critical medical care, including restorative surgery.

Presenting this work at PEGASUS 2026 was an opportunity to carry the voices of survivors into a global health conversation and to show what becomes possible when research, medical partnership, and community trust move together.

Why it matters

For women navigating the health effects of FGC, care is often difficult to find and even harder to ask for. Save Our Sisters exists to make critical medical care reachable, to reduce isolation, and to affirm that every woman deserves to be met with respect and understanding.

Learn more or walk alongside us. To read the research or support the Save Our Sisters Initiative, visit amaniwomencenter.org or call our help line at 1-800-804-4918.

Research: Women’s Health Needs Study, published in Reproductive Health (2025) — CLICK HERE 

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