Mr. Hawn, thank you so much for that question. I'm glad you asked it because I've been asked this before.
The answer to that is absolutely not. It's a lot like some of the religious misinformation around vaccines. The campaign against polio vaccines, that there is some idea that they're against religious tenets, is misinformation that we have now shown can be very effectively tackled.
In Nigeria, where there was such a pushback against polio vaccines because they were considered un-Islamic—or for that matter containing things that would somehow or another produce sterility or infertility—it's now been shown over the last year that, with education, with community engagement, and with mobilization of community volunteers, this can be addressed very effectively. My group has done so also in the federally administered tribal areas of Pakistan.
I think that, around female genital mutilation, there is a very promising trend of gains and improvements. When I mentioned the health care professionals as being responsible for 20% or so, from available statistics, I also pointed that out as being the low-hanging fruit. As a group, we can tackle that much more efficiently than trying to get through to a lot of lay workers and quacks out there.
There needs to be a very clear focus on engaging communities, sir, and also religious leaders, in getting the message out that this barbaric practice, which actually precedes both the Christian faith and the Islamic faith and any others in the region, has absolutely no roots in religion. There are now very strong religious edicts, available from some Islamic scholars, against this practice.