[Gender-based violence in Public Health: challenges and achievements].

Gender-based violence: a crucial challenge for public health.

This article attempts to summarize the situations of gender-based violence, a major public health issue. Due to the unequal power relations between men and women, women are violated either in family, in the community or in the State. Gender-based violence takes different forms like physical, sexual or psychological/ emotional violence. The causes of gender-based violence are multidimensional in...

P-151: Violence Against Women and Children:Causes, Challenges and Prevention

Background: Violence against women is a problem of public health on a global scale. Two decades of international research organizations including the World Health Organization show the problem of violence against women is more serious and more common than was previously considered. These studies aimed to investigate, the most common causes of violence against women and prevention strategy from ...

Responding to gender-based violence in disasters.

To the Editor: In the editorial Responding to Gender-based Violence in Disasters: Grappling With Research Methods to Clear the Way for Planning, Rosborough et al discuss challenges to measuring and reporting on gender-based violence (GBV) in disasteraffected populations.1 The authors also comment on our research contribution, which documented an increase in GBV among female internally displaced...

Health Financing Consequences of Implementing Health Transformation Plan in Iran: Achievements and Challenges

Bridging science, policies and politics in sexual and reproductive health and rights.

As a trained gynaecologist with more than twenty years of service in Africa and other resource-poor settings, I have seen first hand the urgent need to expand access to sexual and reproductive health services. In 1994, I founded the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) in Ghent, Belgium and Kenya to respond to the devastating impacts of HIV and AIDS. As a multidisciplinary centre...