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

Viral infections alter host cell homeostasis and this may lead to immune evasion and/or interfere with the replication of other microbes in coinfected hosts. Two flaviviruses are associated with a reduction in HIV replication or improved survival in HIV-infected people (dengue virus (DV) and GB virus type C (GBV-C)). GBV-C infection and expression of the GBV-C nonstructural protein 5A (NS5A) an...

The focus of this article is a school-based respectful relationships (RRs) pilot project involving grade 8 and 9 students. The project sought to develop a primary prevention approach to gender-based violence (GBV) in Australia. Of particular concern is the curriculum delivery component of a whole school approach that was piloted over a 10-week period in four High Schools in Melbourne, Victoria ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global social problem that has received considerable attention from policymakers and researchers. However, when speaking of GVB, significant paid to women who are seen as being at the receiving end violence. Although statistics do support notion mostly exposed GBV, little been GBV against men often not, it man aggressor woman painted victim. This article investi...

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...

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...