Addressing silences in research on girls’ experiences of teacher sexual violence: insights from Uganda

Uganda Lessons from Northern Uganda in Addressing Gender Based Violence

on the status of mixed methods research in applied linguistics

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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...

Social constraints and sexual violence: experiences of female victims of sexual violence of receiving health care services

Because of the nature of sexual violence, using medical services by female victims is different from use of these services in other circumstance. Thus, this qualitative study was conducted using conventional content analysis to understand particular experiences of female victims of sexual violence of receiving medical services. In-depth non-structured interviews were performed with 10 purposefu...

The effects of sexual violence on psychosocial outcomes in formerly abducted girls in Northern Uganda: the WAYS study

BACKGROUND The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of sexual violence on the odds of different psychosocial outcomes (depression, psychotic symptoms, somatic complaints, conduct problems, daily functioning, community relations, and stigma) among formerly abducted girls in Uganda. METHODS Data from an on-going War-Affected Youth Study (WAYS) in Uganda was used to compute the ...