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Desiree Pieterse - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gender Based Violence alcohol use and sexual risk among female patrons of drinking venues in cape town south africa
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013Co-Authors: Eileen V Pitpitan, Seth C Kalichman, Lisa A Eaton, Demetria Cain, Kathleen J Sikkema, Donald Skinner, Melissa H Watt, Desiree PieterseAbstract:Gender-Based Violence is a well-recognized risk factor for HIV infection among women. Alcohol use is associated with both Gender-Based Violence and sexual risk behavior, but has not been examined as a correlate of both in a context of both high HIV risk and hazardous drinking. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between recent abuse by a sex partner with alcohol and sexual risk behavior among female patrons of alcohol serving venues in South Africa. Specifically, the aim of this study is to determine whether sexual risk behaviors are associated with Gender-Based Violence after controlling for levels of alcohol use. We surveyed 1,388 women attending informal drinking establishments in Cape Town, South Africa to assess recent history of Gender-Based Violence, drinking, and sexual risk behaviors. Gender-Based Violence was associated with both drinking and sexual risk behaviors after controlling for demographics among the women. A hierarchical logistic regression analysis showed that after controlling for alcohol use sexual risk behavior remained significantly associated with Gender-Based Violence, particularly with meeting a new sex partner at the bar, recent STI diagnosis, and engaging in transactional sex, but not protected intercourse or number of partners. In South Africa where heavy drinking is prevalent women may be at particular risk of physical abuse from intimate partners as well as higher sexual risk. Interventions that aim to reduce Gender-Based Violence and sexual risk behaviors must directly work to reduce drinking behavior.
Tina L Cheng - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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i know what love means Gender Based Violence in the lives of urban adolescents
Journal of Womens Health, 2005Co-Authors: Steven B Johnson, Shannon Frattaroli, Jacquelyn C Campbell, Joseph L Wright, Amari Sokoya Pearsonfields, Tina L ChengAbstract:Objectives: In focus groups designed to probe Violence and fighting, urban youth emphasized the impact of Gender-Based Violence in their lives. We used this opportunity to qualitatively explore how Gender-Based Violence affects the lives of urban adolescents. Methods: Thirteen structured focus group interviews were held with youth from three highViolence settings: a large, urban high school, a training center for disadvantaged youth, and a school for adjudicated youth. Participants were 120 urban, predominant African American youth and young adults ages 14–22. Seven focus groups were conducted with females and six with males. Results: Participants did not talk about Violence without discussing the Gender-Based Violence they experienced in a number of social roles: as witnesses to family Violence, as victims of intimate partner and dating Violence, or as peer observers of harassing and violent behavior. Male participants felt that other males used Violence as a way of maintaining a sense of power over thei...
Alankar Malviya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gender-Based Violence and reproductive health in India
2013Co-Authors: Ernestina Coast, Tiziana Leone, Alankar MalviyaAbstract:Ernestina Coast, Tiziana Leone, and Alankar Malviya find that Gender-Based Violence is consistently under-reported and point to flawed government policies that assume married women are safe from Violence.
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Gender-Based Violence and reproductive health in five Indian states
2012Co-Authors: Ernestina Coast, Tiziana Leone, Alankar MalviyaAbstract:Gender-Based Violence is a multi-faceted public health problem with numerous consequences for an individual’s physical and mental health and wellbeing. This collection develops a comprehensive public health approach for working with Gender-Based Violence, paying specific attention to international budgets, policies and practice and drawing on a wide selection of empirical studies.
Eileen V Pitpitan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Gender Based Violence alcohol use and sexual risk among female patrons of drinking venues in cape town south africa
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2013Co-Authors: Eileen V Pitpitan, Seth C Kalichman, Lisa A Eaton, Demetria Cain, Kathleen J Sikkema, Donald Skinner, Melissa H Watt, Desiree PieterseAbstract:Gender-Based Violence is a well-recognized risk factor for HIV infection among women. Alcohol use is associated with both Gender-Based Violence and sexual risk behavior, but has not been examined as a correlate of both in a context of both high HIV risk and hazardous drinking. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between recent abuse by a sex partner with alcohol and sexual risk behavior among female patrons of alcohol serving venues in South Africa. Specifically, the aim of this study is to determine whether sexual risk behaviors are associated with Gender-Based Violence after controlling for levels of alcohol use. We surveyed 1,388 women attending informal drinking establishments in Cape Town, South Africa to assess recent history of Gender-Based Violence, drinking, and sexual risk behaviors. Gender-Based Violence was associated with both drinking and sexual risk behaviors after controlling for demographics among the women. A hierarchical logistic regression analysis showed that after controlling for alcohol use sexual risk behavior remained significantly associated with Gender-Based Violence, particularly with meeting a new sex partner at the bar, recent STI diagnosis, and engaging in transactional sex, but not protected intercourse or number of partners. In South Africa where heavy drinking is prevalent women may be at particular risk of physical abuse from intimate partners as well as higher sexual risk. Interventions that aim to reduce Gender-Based Violence and sexual risk behaviors must directly work to reduce drinking behavior.
Makau W. Mutua - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Transitional Justice in Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
2008Co-Authors: Makau W. MutuaAbstract:Transitional justice concepts have hitherto paid little to no attention to Gender as an important consideration in addressing sexual and Gender-Based Violence after traumatic conflicts and wars. In this article, which was given at a Pan-African conference on Transitional Justice and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Nairobi, Kenya, in July 2008, I explore the reasons for the invisibility of women and Gender in transitional justice vehicles such as truth commissions and judicial and other adjudicatory processes. I argue that legal, political, cultural, and moral regimes must demarginalize women and Gender at the national and international levels, including in the home to raise Gender-sensitive progeny and to combat misogyny. I call for a concerted legal and political approaches and commitments on the part of families, states, civil society, intergovernmental organizations, and the market in both the public and private squares to put Gender and women at the center of law and policy in general, and in transitional justice arrangements, in particular.