A Congolese-US participatory action research partnership to rebuild the lives of rape survivors and their families in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains an all-too-potent reminder of how war, human rights violations and their related health and economic impacts can devastate a society. The last decade has seen the use of rape as a weapon of war in the DRC, where rebels and soldiers subject women and gir...

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Veröffentlicht in:Global public health Jg. 7; H. 2; S. 184 - 195
Hauptverfasser: Glass, Nancy, Ramazani, Paul, Tosha, Mafille, Mpanano, Mitima, Cinyabuguma, Matthias
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: England Taylor & Francis Group 01.02.2012
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Schlagworte:
Action research
Armed forces
Civil war
Community research
Community-Based Participatory Research
Conflict
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Cooperative Behavior
Crime Victims - rehabilitation
Democratic Republic of Congo
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Economic impact
Families & family life
Family
Family - psychology
Female
Gender-based violence
Health
Health care access
Health services
Human rights
Human rights violations
Humans
Intervention
Interventions
Interviews as Topic
Male
Medical service
Mental health services
Microfinance
Military intervention
Military personnel
Mutilation
Participatory action research
Partnership
Partnerships
Post-conflict societies
Poverty
Public health
Rape
Rape - psychology
sexual and gender based violence
social determinants of health
Social factors
Social isolation
Social Medicine
Soldiers
Stigma
Stigmatization
Stress
Survivor
Survivors
Torture
Trauma
Traumatic stress
U.S.A
United States
Victims of crime
Violations
Violence
War
Women
United States
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Congo-Democratic Republic of Congo
United States > US
ISSN:1744-1692, 1744-1706, 1744-1706
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Zusammenfassung:The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) remains an all-too-potent reminder of how war, human rights violations and their related health and economic impacts can devastate a society. The last decade has seen the use of rape as a weapon of war in the DRC, where rebels and soldiers subject women and girls to brutalising attacks, rape, torture and mutilation. Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) are often further traumatised by infections, disease, poverty, stigma and social isolation. Substantial evidence exists showing an association between social determinants (e.g., poverty, stress and trauma, stigma, lack of access to health care) and health; however, limited research has been conducted to elucidate these relationships or to develop and test interventions to change social determinants of health, especially in conflict and post-conflict settings such as the DRC. The purpose of this article is to present a Congolese-US community-academic research partnership to obtain evidence to develop and implement a sustainable intervention to begin to address the social determinants of health, including poverty and traumatic stress for survivors of SGBV and their families in the South Kivu province of eastern DRC.
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ISSN:1744-1692
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DOI:10.1080/17441692.2011.594449