Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is one of the most significant social issues affecting world, and just as in many other countries, GBV pervasive South Africa, where cultural norms gender-based customs traditions serve to condone reinforce abusive practices. According Article 13 Istanbul Convention, a preventive intervention requires heightened awareness first step changing attitudes behaviour that ...

Even before the earthquake that devastated Haiti in January 2010, gender based violence (GBV) was rife throughout the country. Twenty-six percent of all women and girls over the age of 15 experienced GBV (Government of Haiti, 2006). In addition to traditional norms that condoned men's right to control and beat their female partners, and the perception of violence as an acceptable method of conf...

Genomic heterogeneity and quasispecies composition of GB virus C (GBV-C) within plasma and lymphocyte subsets in a naturally infected blood donor were investigated. For this purpose, fragments from the 5' untranslated region (5' UTR) and the E2 gene recovered from plasma, B and T lymphocytes, were cloned and sequenced. A total of 63 clones was analysed: 95.2 % of them (n=60) - obtained from pla...

This paper considers the tensions between individual and collective experiences, responses framings in gender-based violence (GBV). I explore three concepts that aid understanding of GBV – isolating, trauma commoning question their utility process survival. The arguments are evidenced with survivors’ testimony from a participatory action research project on experiences GBV. First, isolating sur...

Analysis of 33 GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) full or nearly full genome sequences revealed several putative inter- and intrasubtype recombinants. The breakpoints of the recombinant regions were mapped using a maximum-likelihood method, and the statistical significance for each region was tested using Monte Carlo simulation. The results were highly significant and provided evidence fo...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a demyelinating disease of unknown origin that affects the central nervous system of an estimated 400,000 Americans. GBV-C or hepatitis G is a flavivirus that is found in the serum of 1-2% of blood donors. It was originally associated with hepatitis, but is now believed to be a relatively non-pathogenic lymphotropic virus. Fifty frozen specimens from the brains of dec...

GB virus B (GBV-B) is the closest relative of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and is an attractive surrogate model for HCV antiviral studies. GBV-B induces an acute, resolving hepatitis in tamarins. Utilizing primary cultures of tamarin hepatocytes, we have previously developed a tissue culture system that exhibits high levels of GBV-B replication. In this report, we have extended the utility of this s...

Abstract “Intervention support and treatment” programs are most likely to have been designed for the substances consumed by men, cater men’s needs, with little regard specific needs of women. Gender-based violence (GBV) has become a key area addressing treatment drug addiction from gender perspective. In this mapping review covering 32 articles, we examine strategies used address gender-based i...

To evaluate the risk of transmitting blood-borne GB virus C/hepatitis G virus (GBV-C/HGV) and to define the natural course of infection, we performed a prospective study in a cohort of multitransfused beta-thalassemics during a 6-year follow-up period. We analyzed serum samples of 150 patients collected at 3-year intervals from 1990 to 1996. GBV-C/HGV RNA was determined by reverse transcriptase...