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Intimate partner violence against women in eastern Uganda: implications for HIV prevention [PDF]

BMC Public Health, 2006
Background We were interested in finding out if the very low antenatal VCT acceptance rate reported in Mbale Hospital was linked to intimate partner violence against women. We therefore set out to i) determine the prevalence of intimate partner violence,
Tylleskar Thorkild, Tumwine James K, Karamagi Charles AS, Heggenhougen Kristian   +3 more
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Intimate Partner Violence and Injury Prediction From Radiology Reports [PDF]

, 2020
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is an urgent, prevalent, and under-detected public health issue. We present machine learning models to assess patients for IPV and injury. We train the predictive algorithms on radiology reports with 1) IPV labels based on entry to a violence prevention program and 2) injury labels provided by emergency radiology ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Ending violence against women: Help-seeking behaviour of women exposed to intimate partner violence in sub-Saharan Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2023
IntroductionIntimate partner violence is a serious public health problem that transcends cultural boundaries in sub-Saharan Africa. Studies have reported that violence characteristics and perception are strong predictors of help-seeking among women.
Richard Gyan Aboagye, Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Abdul Cadri, Tarif Salihu, Francis Arthur-Holmes, Sarah Tara Sam, Bright Opoku Ahinkorah   +6 more
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AIR-JPMC@SMM4H'22: Classifying Self-Reported Intimate Partner Violence in Tweets with Multiple BERT-based Models [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
This paper presents our submission for the SMM4H 2022-Shared Task on the classification of self-reported intimate partner violence on Twitter (in English). The goal of this task was to accurately determine if the contents of a given tweet demonstrated someone reporting their own experience with intimate partner violence.
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Intimate partner violence against HIV-positive Cameroonian women: Prevalence, associated factors and relationship with antiretroviral therapy discontinuity—results from the ANRS-12288 EVOLCam survey

Women's Health, 2019
Background: Intimate partner violence in its various forms increases HIV exposure in female victims and potentially jeopardizes the HIV treatment cascade, for instance, by impeding engagement in and adherence to care.
Marion Fiorentino, Luis Sagaon-Teyssier, Khadim Ndiaye, Marie Suzan-Monti, Marie-Thérèse Mengue, Laurent Vidal, Christopher Kuaban, Laura March, Christian Laurent, Bruno Spire, Sylvie Boyer,   +11 more
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Exploring the determinants and outcomes of intimate partner violence during pregnancy for Guyanese women: Results from a nationally representative cross-sectional household survey

Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021
Objective. To determine predictors associated with physical violence during pregnancy, and to determine the relationship between exposure to intimate partner violence during pregnancy and women’s health and suicide ideation in Guyana. Methods.
Lior Miller, Manuel Contreras-Urbina
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Intimate partner violence and HIV testing during antenatal care: A latent class analysis to identify risk factors for HIV infection in mothers and their children in the United Republic of Tanzania.

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
Intimate partner violence has adverse effects on mother's overall health and prevention of mother to child HIV transmission. To identify and examine subgroups of mothers experiencing intimate partner violence and the likelihood of HIV testing during ...
Francisco A Montiel Ishino, Claire Rowan, Joel Seme Ambikile, Donaldson F Conserve, Diana Lopez, Melanie Sabado-Liwag, Faustine Williams   +6 more
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Prevalence of intimate partner violence in Spain: A national cross-sectional survey in primary care

Atención Primaria, 2017
Objectives: (1) To analyze the prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence by types. (2) To examine the relationship between sociodemographic characteristics and Intimate Partner Violence. Design: Cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire.
Isabel Ruiz-Pérez, Vicenta Escribà-Agüir, Isabel Montero-Piñar, Carmen Vives-Cases, Miguel Rodríguez-Barranco, Juncal Plazaola-Castaño, Esther Jiménez-Gutiérrez, Mercè Fuentes-Pujol, Izabella Rohlfs-Barbosa, Pilar Blanco-Prieto, Diana Gil-González, Julia Ojuel-Solsona, Consuelo Ruiz-Jarabo Quemada, Raquel Millán-Susinos, Laura García-Miranda, Carmen Mosquera-Tenreiro   +15 more
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COVID-19-induced surge in the severity of gender-based violence might increase the risk for acquired brain injuries

SAGE Open Medicine, 2021
While initial reports have emphasized a global rise in the frequency of intimate partner violence following COVID-19, emerging data are now showing a concerning surge in the severity of COVID-19-induced physical intimate partner violence. One of the most
Ghazala T Saleem, Jessica M Fitzpatrick, Mohammad N Haider, Eve M Valera   +3 more
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Brazilian Favela Women: How Your Standard Solutions for Technology Abuse Might Actually Harm Them [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Brazil is home to over 200M people, the majority of which have access to the Internet. Over 11M Brazilians live in favelas, or informal settlements with no outside government regulation, often ruled by narcos or militias. Victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) in these communities are made extra vulnerable not only by lack of access to resources ...
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