Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Drug Addiction Treatment: a Systematic Mapping Review

Effectiveness of mindfulness-based treatment on addiction relapse prevention: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction: A lot of research has been done on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapies in the treatment of addiction and the reduction of its long-term challenges. Correspondingly, this study was done with the aim of systematically reviewing and meta-analyzing the studies conducted in Iran on the effectiveness of mindfulness-based treatments on addiction relapse prevention. Materials...

A comprehensive programme addressing HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.

A survey was administered to 304 respondents participating from three areas near Welkom, South Africa. Face-toface interviews were conducted with women from randomly selected households to evaluate the impact of a service provision programme targeting women living with HIV/AIDS and gender based violence. Gender based violence (GBV) awareness and knowledge was high. Respondents had high perceive...

Uganda Lessons from Northern Uganda in Addressing Gender Based Violence

A systematic review of prevalence studies of gender-based violence in complex emergencies.

Current methods to estimate the incidence of gender-based violence in complex emergencies tend to rely on nonprobability samples. Population-based monitoring is undertaken relatively infrequently. This article provides a systematic review of published literature that represents attempts to quantify the magnitude of gender-based violence in emergency settings. Searches adopted a Boolean procedur...

School-based girls' clubs as a means of addressing sexual and gender-based violence in Swaziland

Background Sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) is a global health and human rights problem which is of particular concern in sub-Saharan Africa because of the compounding effects of high HIV prevalence. In Swaziland a small, land-locked country of just over one million people women and girls face the disproportionate burden of both SGBV and HIV: Nearly half (48%) of those aged 13-24 years r...