TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2023//
TI  - What are survivors of conflict-related sexual violence saying about care?
JO  - International journal of gynaecology and obstetrics
A1  - Vidale-Plaza, Dominique
A1  - Djangala Fall, Miryam D. E.
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - In order to achieve a holistic ethos of care, survivors' voices and their situated knowledge must be the central focus.     Sexual violence, once considered as "normal" in the context of war, has been used widely by unarmed and armed perpetrators, in contexts such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Iraq, Rwanda and Ukraine, among others.1-3 Conflict-related sexual violence is described by the United Nations (UN) as including "rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced abortion, enforced sterilization, forced marriage (and) trafficking in persons when committed in situations of conflict".4 While women, men, girls and boys can all be victims of sexual violence, women and girls are disproportionately affected, as conflict exacerbates pre-existing gendered inequities and vulnerabilities.     The documented and undocumented (or under-documented) lived experiences of survivors indicate that the consequences of sexual violence in conflict are interdependent, and as individual as they are collective. These consequences range from the medical, including infertility, traumatic fistula, sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancies, and physical disability, to the social, such as rejection from spouses, families and communities, and a loss of socio-economic opportunities.5, 6<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0020-7292
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.14958
ID  - ref1
ER  -