The role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault

Sexual violence can have an overwhelming impact on the victim’s physical and mental health; the consequences include unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Therefore, the examiners must assess victims for possible pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections as a part of t...

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Autores principales: Yesodharan, Renjulal, Kamath, Pratibha, Renjith, Vishnu, Krishnan, Nirmal M., Senarathne, Udara Dilrukshi, Sasidharan, Suja Kumari, Jose, Tessy Treesa, Nayak, Vinod C.
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Publicado: Springer US 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36881378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12024-023-00578-6
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author Yesodharan, Renjulal
Kamath, Pratibha
Renjith, Vishnu
Krishnan, Nirmal M.
Senarathne, Udara Dilrukshi
Sasidharan, Suja Kumari
Jose, Tessy Treesa
Nayak, Vinod C.
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Kamath, Pratibha
Renjith, Vishnu
Krishnan, Nirmal M.
Senarathne, Udara Dilrukshi
Sasidharan, Suja Kumari
Jose, Tessy Treesa
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description Sexual violence can have an overwhelming impact on the victim’s physical and mental health; the consequences include unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Therefore, the examiners must assess victims for possible pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections as a part of the sexual assault examination. This article aims to orient the medico-legal examiners towards their role in preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among victims of sexual assault. Prompt detection of pregnancy or STIs is critical, as any delay would adversely affect the successful administration of emergency contraception and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections.
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spelling pubmed-105182772023-09-26 The role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault Yesodharan, Renjulal Kamath, Pratibha Renjith, Vishnu Krishnan, Nirmal M. Senarathne, Udara Dilrukshi Sasidharan, Suja Kumari Jose, Tessy Treesa Nayak, Vinod C. Forensic Sci Med Pathol Review Sexual violence can have an overwhelming impact on the victim’s physical and mental health; the consequences include unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Therefore, the examiners must assess victims for possible pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections as a part of the sexual assault examination. This article aims to orient the medico-legal examiners towards their role in preventing unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among victims of sexual assault. Prompt detection of pregnancy or STIs is critical, as any delay would adversely affect the successful administration of emergency contraception and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other sexually transmitted infections. Springer US 2023-03-07 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10518277/ /pubmed/36881378 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12024-023-00578-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Yesodharan, Renjulal
Kamath, Pratibha
Renjith, Vishnu
Krishnan, Nirmal M.
Senarathne, Udara Dilrukshi
Sasidharan, Suja Kumari
Jose, Tessy Treesa
Nayak, Vinod C.
The role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault
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title_full The role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault
title_fullStr The role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault
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title_short The role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault
title_sort role of legal medicine professionals in preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among female victims of sexual assault
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10518277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36881378
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12024-023-00578-6
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