This GBV event featured presentations from ICRW, Population Council, and Stony Brook University. Topics covered included: connections between legal age of marriage and violence, and IPV among young women in Kenya and Ethiopia.Read More
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Screening and Response: Making Referrals Work
Part of the Gender-Based Violence in the Health Sector series, the panel featured three presentations that examined service delivery programs’ experience with referrals of clients. The presenters shared best practices, as well as lessons learned, in US, Kenya, and Mozambique.Read More
Setting the Stage: Asking Women about Violence and Responding Within Health Care Settings
Panelists described the current evidence around the effectiveness of screening for intimate partner violence in health care settings, outlined new guidelines around screening from the World Health Organization, and shared results from a pilot project in Kenya, at an IGWG to commemorate the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in 2014.Read More