Tanzania has made progress in reducing the prevalence of FGM from 18 per cent to 10 percent in the last 20 years. However, even with this progress, there is a disturbing fact: One in ten women in Tanzania (aged 15-49) has undergone FGM. Of these, 35 per cent underwent FGM before the age of one. (TDHS-MS; 2015/2016)
