Comfort Momoh

**Comfort Iyabo Amah Momoh**, MBE  (a mụrụ n'afọ 1962) bu onye na-enyere ndị dị ime aka ị mụpụta nwa nke bu onye okachamara na ọgwọgwọ nke ndi nwanyi e bere ugwu. A mụrụ ya na Naijiria,ma Momoh bụ onye otu ndi Britain FGM national clinical group,e guzobere n'afọ 2007 iji zụọ ndi okachamara banyere otu esi a rụ ọrụ ahụ.  Ruo afọ 2017, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka ọkachamara ahụike ọha na eze na Guy and St Thomas 'NHS Foundation Trust na Lọndọn.  Ọ bụ onye nchịkọta akụkọ nke *Female Genital Mutilation*  (2005).

## Mmalite ndụ ya na mmuta
A mụrụ Momoh na Legos,na Naijiria,n'ezinụlọ ndị Naijiria na Gana.   Nne nne ya nwụrụ ụbọchị ole na ole tupu ọmụmụ Momoh,  ọ kachasị bụrụ nne nna ya zụlitere ya. 

N'afọ 1981, ọ kwagara UK maka ọ zụzụ ị bụ nọọsụ na North Middlesex Hospital. Ọ bụ na Middlesex ka ọ malitere ị mụ banyere FGM, nke ndị agbụrụ ya anaghị eme na Naijiria.   N'afọ 2002,o nwetara nzere bachelọ na nlekọta ahụike ụmụ nwanyị site na Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery,nke King's College dị na Lọndọn .  Ọ natara agụmakwụkwọ n'efu nke Florence Nightingale Foundation n'afọ 2007 i ji mee nnyocha banyere ibi nwanyi ugwu n'Afrịka,  yana n’afọ 2015 otu ahụ nyere ya njem mmụta n'efu i ji gaa Amerịka i ji mụọ ụzọ ha si e so i bi nwanyi ugwu. 

## Ọrụ
N’afọ 1997, Momoh guzobere ụlọọgwụ African Well Women Clinic na St Thomas’s Hospital, nke ewepụtara maka ilekọta ụmụ nwanyị i bi ugwu metụtara.   N'ime afọ 2013, ụlọọgwụ ahụ na-eleta ihe dị ka ụmụ nwanyị 300 kwa afọ ma na-arụ ọrụ defibuleshọn abụọ kwa izu ụka, nke gụnyere ịmepe ikpu e mechiri n'ihi i be ugwu nke Type III .  

Momoh rụtụrụ ọrụ dịka onye ndụmọdụ na World Health Organisation n'afọ 1999 were nọchite anya UK na United Nations Commission on the Status of Women n'afọ 2001.  Site n'afọ 2007, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka ọkachamara n'ahụike ọha na eze na Guy's and St Thomas 'NHS Foundation Trust, tupu ị la ezumike nká n'afọ 2017.   Momoh nwekwazị Global Comfort Ltd., ụlọ ọrụ ndụmọdụ.  A gụnyere ya na ndepụta nke *London Evening Standard*  nke afọ 2014 nke mmadụ1000 kasị nwee mmetụta na Lọndọn.  

## Nrite
Na 2008 New Year Honours, a họpụtara Momoh ka ọ bụrụ Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) maka ọrụ nlekọta ahụike ụmụ nwanyị.  E nyere ya nzere dọktọreti na Mahadum nke Middlesex n'afọ 2008.  N’afọ 2011, o ritere ihe nrite ‘Gathering of Africa’s Best (GAB).  King's College London họpụtara ya dị ka 2015 Alumna of the Year  ,  ma n'afọ 2016, e nyere ya mkpakọrịta site na Royal College of Midwives . 

## Mkpesa afọ 2017
Na Septemba afọ 2017, BBC *Newsnight* welitere ajụjụ gbasara nnyocha  o pekata mpe ụmụaka ise site n'aka Momoh. Ihe omume a nyochara ibu ndi isi ochichi Briten nyere banyere i nyocha umuaka nwanyị maka ibi nwanyi ugwu na ebubo n'ule a mere ka obi ghara iru umuaka a ala n'ihi na-ebibeghi ha ugwu. Ezinaụlọ dị iche iche na-atụ ụjọ na a ga-ebo ha ebubo ma kewaa. Kemgbe afọ 2012, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health chọrọ ka ndị dibia bekee na-enyocha ụmụaka e metọrọ bụrụ ndị ọpụrụiche. *Newsnight* kwuru na Momoh kọwara onwe ya ka "Dọkịnta", agbanyeghị na dọktọreti ya bụ nke onyinye nsọpụrụ, na n'oge ikpe ụlọ ikpe n'afọ 2014, onye ọka ikpe, James Munby, katọrọ ihe akaebe ya dị ka ihe apụghị ịtụkwasị obi.   Momoh zara na o nweghị ihe ọjọọ o mere na o nweghi ihe ọ bụla ọ na-ezo. Nimco Ali, onye na-emegide FGM, gwara *Times*, "Comfort a rụọla ọrụ i ji kwụsị i bi ugwu ihe karịrị afọ 30 ma mee ka ndụ ọtụtụ ụmụ nwanyị na ụmụaka nwanyị baa ọgaranya. Mgbalị iji gbuo atụmatụ ụdịrị nwanyị dị otu a bụ ihe ihere. ” 

## Ọrụ ahọpụtara

*(2004). Comfort Momoh. "Female genital mutilation", *Curr Opin Obstet Gynecol*. 2004 Dec;16(6):477-80.  
*(2005). Comfort Momoh (ed.) *Female Genital Mutilation*, Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing, 2005.
*(2010). Comfort Momoh. "Female genital mutilation: a global and local concern", *Pract Midwife*. 2010 Apr;13(4):12-4.  
*(2010). Comfort Momoh. "A day in the life of&nbsp;... a female genital mutilation/public health specialist", *Midwives*. 2010 Aug:50. 
*(2010). Susan Bewley, Sarah Creighton, and Comfort Momoh. "Female genital mutilation", *BMJ*. 2010 Jun 2;340:c2728. .  
*(2014). Katherine A. Zakhour and Comfort Momoh. "Female genital mutilation", in Maureen Dalton (ed.). *Forensic Gynaecology*. Cambridge University Press, 142–147.
*(2016). Maria Luisa Amasanti, Mendinaro Imcha, and Comfort Momoh. "Compassionate and Proactive Interventions by Health Workers in the United Kingdom: A Better Approach to Prevent and Respond to Female Genital Mutilation?", *PLOS Medicine*, 13(3), 22 March, e1001982.  
*(2016). Comfort Momoh, Olamide Olufade, and Patrice Redman-Pinard. "What nurses need to know about female genital mutilation", *British Journal of Nursing*, May 12–25;25(9):S30-4.  

## Nrụtụaka

## Ọgụgụ ọzọ

* "One woman’s fight against female circumcision", *[[:en:Woman's_Hour|Woman's Hour]]*, BBC Radio 4, 26 October 2006, interview.
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