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Preventing Intimate Partner Violence in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and the Uganda National Academy of Sciences (2015) / Chapter Skim
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3 The Intersection of IPV and HIV
Pages 19-24

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... The next study Watts shared teased out different forms of violence and their relationship with HIV contraction. Using data collected in the city of Rakai, Uganda, researchers were able to echo the findings of the Jewkes paper in determining that women who experience violence face a significantly higher risk of contracting HIV (Kouyoumdjian et al., 2013)
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... Furthermore, the WHO Multi-country Study reported that Tanzanian women in violent relation­ ships asked their partner to use a condom more often than women in nonviolent relationships; however, men in those same violent relationships are more likely to refuse condom usage than those in nonviolent relationships. Watts explained that this shows that not only are women in violent relationships aware of an increased risk of sexually transmitted infections, but also that the men in these relationships exert power over their partners in a multitude of ways -- not only through the use of violence.
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... Speaker Samuel Likindikoki, a Lecturer and Medical Specialist at Muhimbili University, raised the issues found within current research and data that make it extremely difficult to develop a case for increased resources and funding streams -- which are necessary to any successful intervention efforts. He worried that current data is conflicting, showing that advocacy, screening, and criminal justice efforts are ineffective.
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... These promising results provide not only a strong basis for the next phases of intervention and prevention strategies within the study, but also help to develop the foundational evidence for why the Kenyan government should begin to fund health programs and interventions that seek to prevent IPV both and HIV simultaneously. Speaker Jennifer Wagman of the Uganda-based SHARE program explained that the SHARE model uses a community mobilization approach to prevent and screen for IPV while reducing the associated risk factors that can lead to HIV infection.
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... 2013. Risk factors for intimate partner violence in women in the Rakai Community Cohort Study, Uganda, from 2000 to 2009.
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Key Terms

  • partner violence
  • sexual violence
  • intimate partner
  • violent relationships
  • increased risk

  • watts explained
  • contracting hiv
  • hiv prevention
  • existing hiv
  • successful interventions

  • concurrent sexual
  • lvct health
  • significant relationship
  • share model
  • kenyan government

  • forced sex
  • intervention efforts
  • risk factors
  • verbal abuse
  • using data

  • hiv status
  • effective hiv
  • hiv coexist
  • hiv intervention
  • successful initiatives

  • unequal relationship
  • speaker christine
  • hiv infections
  • hiv transmission
  • speaker samuel


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