The WHO organized in Sudan a conference on traditional practices affecting women's health, meaning such barbarous practices as excision, partial or total, of the clitoris, and infibulation. Such mutilations are still practiced in 25 African countries, notwithstanding official prohibition. Complications from such practices are several and severe, going from hemorrage to retention of urine, from serious lesions to infection and bad cicatrizations. Infertility and dysmenorrhea are long term complications, together with enormous, and often fatal, obstetrical difficulties at the time of delivery.