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Setting the Stage: Asking Women about Violence and Responding Within Health Care Settings

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To commemorate the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence 2014, IGWG – with  USAID, and PAHO,  WHO, CARE, PRB, and Population Council – hosted a panel entitled “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.

Presentations:

  • Claudia Garcia Moreno, World Health Organization (WHO): “From Evidence to Action: WHO Guidelines for Responding to Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Against Women” (PDF: 1548 KB)
  • Alessandra Guedes, Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO): “Asking Women about Violence: Understanding Different Points of View” (PDF: 562 KB)
  • Chi-Chi Undie, Population Council: “The Power of Asking: What Happened When Women in a Public Kenyan Hospital Were Routinely Asked about Intimate Partner Violence” (PDF: 393 KB)

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Screening and Response: Making Referrals Work

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On June 23rd, IGWG held the third panel of the Screening and Responding to GBV in Health Care Settings series, “Screening and Response: Making Referrals Work.” 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, for both US and international contexts.

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Child, Early and Forced Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence

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This Gender-Based Violence Task Force event on March 6, 2017 explored the connections between child marriage and intimate partner violence (IPV). Presenters included researchers and development experts from ICRW, Population Council, and Stony Brook University. The event opened with Rachel Kidman of Stony Brook University, who used open source DHS data to analyze the relationship between child marriage and IPV. Her findings showed that globally, the data show a strong correlation between the two, and that national marriage laws do not seem to reduce the child marriage prevalence. Sanyukta Mathur from the PopCouncil shared results from the DREAMS initiative in Kenya, which surveyed young Kenyan women and their experience with IPV. Jeff Edmeades of ICRW, the final presenter, highlighted findings from the TESFA program in Ethiopia, which showed that young brides are more vulnerable to violence. The event ended with a Q&A session with all three panelists, moderated by Charlotte Feldman-Jacobs of PRB.

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