Over 89% respondents were aged 18 years and 89.3% were self-referred. Though up to 74.5% admitted to a history of rape, 42% had not officially reported this SGBV whichNshemerirwe, SylviaNasinyama, ScholasticaTwebaze, AgnesAfrican Journal...
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Gender-based violence is a major public health problem and a violation of human rights. The effect of violence can be devastating to a woman's reproductive health as well as other aspects of her physical and mental wellbeing. Women with a history of sexual abuse are also at increased risk ...
This paper examines Uganda's compliance with commitments of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) on Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The findings show that Uganda has partially complied with these commitments mainly by incorporating them into national laws and polici...
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There is general agreement that sexuality is a central aspect of human development; it is key in sexual health and reproductive education during adolescence. However, in spite of the existing interventions on this topic and the evidence generated, the inclusion of a gender focus in sexuality is ...
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The nature of extra-relational sex in societies with rapidly changing sexual mores and widespread commercial sex remains under-explored. The 2006 Sexuality
The study, based on data from the 2011 Uganda Demographic and Health Survey (UDHS), analysed 1307 weighted cases of women age 15–49 in union and selected for the domestic violence module. Chi-squared tests and multivariate logistic regressions were used to examine the predicators of STI ...
Climate change, women's health, wellbeing and experiences of gender based violence in Australia. In: Research, action and policy: address- ing the gendered impacts of climate change: Springer; 2013. p. 207–21. 31. Preet R, Nilsson M, Schumann B, Evengård B. The gender perspective in...