Background Gender-based violence (GBV) is a significant problem in conflict-affected settings. Understanding local constructions of such violence is crucial to developing preventive and responsive interventions to address this issue. Methods This study reports on a secondary analysis of archived data collected as part of formative qualitative work - using a group participatory ranking methodo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of GB virus-C (GBV-C) RNA and TT virus (TTV) DNA in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and osteoarthritis (OA) as well as to compare the autoantibody pattern in patients with SSc with and without evidence of viral infection. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 168 patients (84 SSc, 41 RA, and 43 OA) diagnosed according ...

GBV-C or hepatitis G virus (HGV) was discovered by two independent groups of investigators when studying cases of hepatitis non-A, non-B, and non-E.1,2 HGV is transmitted through blood transfusion and components.3,4 Up to now, there is no report about detection of GBV-C/HGV RNA by nucleic acid test and serological markers in Chinese voluntary blood donors. Considering the safety of blood transf...

This review attempts to shed light on the socio-cultural roots of gender-based violence (GBV) and its impact on women's health with a special reference to reproductive health in the context of South Asia. It also identifies the policy and capacity gaps that impede the implementation of gender-related development goals and makes recommendations in light of the ongoing situation. Led by the growi...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is global issue, requiring specialized knowledge, attitudes, and skills. The most effective responses are interdisciplinary, involving social work, healthcare, the justice system. While GBV was exacerbated during pandemic, many students faced a reduced availability of practice opportunities to learn how respond GBV. authors describe teaching learning project which ex...

conclusions this study found that gbv-c infection has a high frequency among injecting drug users with hiv/hcv coinfection and hcv mono-infection in yunnan, china. in patients with chronic hepatitis c and hiv coinfection, gbv-c rna was associated with significantly lower alt and ast levels, suggesting a beneficial effect of gbv-c infection on chronic hepatitis c. results gbv-c rna was identifie...

Gender-based violence (GBV) has become a major problem in South Africa, making headlines on regular basis. When the president of Republic Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa, declared lockdown reaction to worldwide pandemic: COVID-19 one expectations was that families would spend more time together harmony. However, number recorded domestic instances increased as result lockdown. Women have historically been s...

BACKGROUND Following decades of conflict, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011. Prolonged conflict, which included gender-based violence (GBV), exacerbated gender disparities. This study aimed to assess attitudes towards gender inequitable norms related to GBV and to estimate the frequency of GBV in sampled communities of South Sudan. METHODS Applying a community-based participa...

background:accumulative research is in progress to clarify clinical aspects of gbv-c. the possibility of interaction between hcv and gbv-c as well as its consequence on development of liver diseases is the most important clinical aspect which encourages researchers to develop a rapid and cost effective technique for simultaneous detection of both viruses.methods: in this study, a sybr green rea...

13 Humanitarian and public institutions are increasingly relying on data from social media sites to measure 14 public attitude, and provide timely public engagement. Such engagement supports the exploration of 15 public views on important social issues such as gender-based violence (GBV). In this study, we examine 16 Big (Social) Data consisting of nearly fourteen million tweets collected from ...