World Health Organization Publication : Year 2004 ; Issue 924159263X: Clinical Management of Rape Survivors

By World Health Organization

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Title:	World Health Organization Publication : Year 2004 ; Issue 924159263X: Clinical Management of Rape Survivors
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Sexual and gender-based violence, including rape, is a problem throughout the world, occurring in every society, country and region. Refugees and internally displaced people are particularly at risk of this violation of their human rights during every phase of an emergency situation. The systematic use of sexual violence as a method of warfare is well documented and constitutes a grave breach of international humanitarian law

Table of Contents
Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Abbreviations and acronyms used in this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . viii introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 STEP 1 – Making preparations to offer medical care to rape survivors . . . . . . . . . . 5 STEP 2 – Preparing the survivor for the examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 STEP 3 – Taking the history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 STEP 4 – Collecting forensic evidence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 STEP 5 – Performing the physical and genital examination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 STEP 6 – Prescribing treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 STEP 7 – Counselling the survivor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 STEP 8 – Follow-up care of the survivor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Care for child survivors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 ANNEX 1 – Additional resource materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 ANNEX 2 – Information needed to develop a local protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 ANNEX 3 – Minimum care for rape survivors in low-resource settings . . . . . . . . . 38 ANNEX 4 – Sample consent form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 ANNEX 5 – Sample history and examination form. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 ANNEX 6 – Pictograms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 ANNEX 7 – Forensic evidence collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 ANNEX 8 - Medical certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 ANNEX 9 – Protocols for prevention and treatment of stis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 ANNEX 10 – Protocols for post-exposure prophylaxis of hiv infection. . . . . . . . . . 59 ANNEX 11 – Protocols for emergency contraception . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63