HIV Testing Centers Venues for Domestic Violence Screening and Counseling
02/02/2011
Duke researchers provide evidence on the prevalence and risk factors associated with domestic violence in northern Tanzania
Of more than 2,400 women interviewed at an HIV VCT site in the Kilimanjaro Region of Tanzania, one in five women reported physical or sexual violence during their lifetime, and a third of those women experienced violence frequently. The study also found that among women with a history of violence, 78% reported physical violence, 61% reported sexual violence and 39% reported both at least once in their lifetime.
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mine is a question on how to tackle domestic violence against women because you will see some women if their husband beat them they are afraid to report thinking that the husband may divorce her some will be staying in the same room but they cannot talk to each other for over six months talk much of providing food for the family and the woman is still concealing this problem and she is complaining of trauma.
— adukwa on 2011-10-19