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Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, ongoing armed conflict increases the incidence of gender-based violence (GBV) and presents a distinct and major barrier to care delivery for all survivors of GBV. A specific challenge is providing emergency contraception, HIV prophylaxis and treatment...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001120 |
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author | Bress, Joshua Kashemwa, Givano Amisi, Christine Armas, Jean McWhorter, Cindy Ruel, Theodore Ammann, Arthur J Mukwege, Denis Butler, Lisa M |
author_facet | Bress, Joshua Kashemwa, Givano Amisi, Christine Armas, Jean McWhorter, Cindy Ruel, Theodore Ammann, Arthur J Mukwege, Denis Butler, Lisa M |
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description | In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, ongoing armed conflict increases the incidence of gender-based violence (GBV) and presents a distinct and major barrier to care delivery for all survivors of GBV. A specific challenge is providing emergency contraception, HIV prophylaxis and treatment for sexually transmitted infections to all survivors within 72 hours of violence. To address the multiple barriers to providing this time-sensitive medical care, Global Strategies and Panzi Hospital implemented the Prevention Pack Program. The Prevention Pack is a pre-packaged post-rape medical kit containing antiretroviral post-exposure prophylaxis, antibiotics for treatment of sexually transmitted infections and emergency contraception. The Prevention Pack Program combines community sensitisation about post-rape medical care with the provision of Prevention Packs and the implementation of a cloud-based and Global Positioning System (GPS)–enabled inventory management system. The Panzi Hospital gender-based violence team implemented the Prevention Pack Program at Panzi Hospital and 12 rural clinics in the South Kivu Province. The data manager took GPS coordinates of each site, provided an initial stock of Prevention Packs and then called all sites daily to determine demand for post-rape care and Prevention Pack consumption. Inventory data were entered into the GPS-enabled cloud-based inventory management system. Project personnel used the consumption rate, trends and geolocation of sites to guide Prevention Pack restocking strategy. Between 2013 and 2017, a total of 8206 individuals presented for care following rape at the study sites. Of the 1414 individuals who presented in the rural areas, 1211 (85.6%) did so within the first 72 hours of reported rape. Care was delivered continuously and without a single stockout of medication across all sites. The Prevention Pack Program provided timely and consistent access to emergency contraception, HIV prophylaxis and treatment for sexually transmitted infections for rape survivors in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. |
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spelling | pubmed-64076652019-03-21 Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Bress, Joshua Kashemwa, Givano Amisi, Christine Armas, Jean McWhorter, Cindy Ruel, Theodore Ammann, Arthur J Mukwege, Denis Butler, Lisa M BMJ Glob Health Practice In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, ongoing armed conflict increases the incidence of gender-based violence (GBV) and presents a distinct and major barrier to care delivery for all survivors of GBV. A specific challenge is providing emergency contraception, HIV prophylaxis and treatment for sexually transmitted infections to all survivors within 72 hours of violence. To address the multiple barriers to providing this time-sensitive medical care, Global Strategies and Panzi Hospital implemented the Prevention Pack Program. The Prevention Pack is a pre-packaged post-rape medical kit containing antiretroviral post-exposure prophylaxis, antibiotics for treatment of sexually transmitted infections and emergency contraception. The Prevention Pack Program combines community sensitisation about post-rape medical care with the provision of Prevention Packs and the implementation of a cloud-based and Global Positioning System (GPS)–enabled inventory management system. The Panzi Hospital gender-based violence team implemented the Prevention Pack Program at Panzi Hospital and 12 rural clinics in the South Kivu Province. The data manager took GPS coordinates of each site, provided an initial stock of Prevention Packs and then called all sites daily to determine demand for post-rape care and Prevention Pack consumption. Inventory data were entered into the GPS-enabled cloud-based inventory management system. Project personnel used the consumption rate, trends and geolocation of sites to guide Prevention Pack restocking strategy. Between 2013 and 2017, a total of 8206 individuals presented for care following rape at the study sites. Of the 1414 individuals who presented in the rural areas, 1211 (85.6%) did so within the first 72 hours of reported rape. Care was delivered continuously and without a single stockout of medication across all sites. The Prevention Pack Program provided timely and consistent access to emergency contraception, HIV prophylaxis and treatment for sexually transmitted infections for rape survivors in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. BMJ Publishing Group 2019-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC6407665/ /pubmed/30899559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001120 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2019. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Practice Bress, Joshua Kashemwa, Givano Amisi, Christine Armas, Jean McWhorter, Cindy Ruel, Theodore Ammann, Arthur J Mukwege, Denis Butler, Lisa M Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
title | Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
title_full | Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
title_fullStr | Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
title_full_unstemmed | Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
title_short | Delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
title_sort | delivering integrated care after sexual violence in the democratic republic of the congo |
topic | Practice |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6407665/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30899559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2018-001120 |
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