4283.0 Preventing violence against women across the globe

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
The APHA Committee on Women's Rights has been working to educate health care professionals about the growing pandemic which is violence against women. This session will discuss the sociocultural and political issues related to violence and the steps which can be taken at various levels to address this public health challenge.
Session Objectives: 1. Identify why violence against women is a major public health issue. 2. Identify the various types of gender based violence. 3. Discuss emerging preventive strategies to address violence against women.
Moderator:
Venus Ginés, MA

2:30pm
Sexual violence among adolescent girls in urban Zimbabwe: Social drivers and associations with HIV and Herpes simplex virus type-2 (HSV-2) infection
Asuka Leslie, MBBS MSc DFPH, Judith Glynn, BM BCh MA MSc PhD FRCP, Sian Floyd, BSc MSc, Auxillia Machingura Nyagadza, Simon Gregson, DPhil and Isolde Birdthistle, MSc PhD
     
2:50pm
Bystander Engagement: A longitudinal study on the effects of "You the Man" on high school students
Cathy Plourde, MA
     
3:10pm
Predictors of Help-Seeking Behavior Among Women Exposed to Violence in Nigeria: A multilevel analysis to evaluate the impact of individual and contextual factors
Natalia Linos, MS, Natalie Slopen, MA and Ichiro Kawachi, MD, PhD
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: APHA-Committee on Women's Rights
Endorsed by: Maternal and Child Health, Mental Health, Socialist Caucus, Women's Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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