Health services are seen to provide an important entry point for identifying and responding to women who have experienced sexual violence.
Research conducted in collaboration with the University of Cape Town’s gender, health and justice unit has confirmed the link between gender-based violence and HIV in South Africa, the 9th South African Aids Conference heard on Thursday.
A cross-sectional study was conducted using a screening tool and a longer in-depth questionnaire about the prevalence of sexual and gender-based violence . “10% of all participants and 12% of women had been forced to have sex the last time that they had sexual intercourse, by either a partner or a non-partner. Of those, seven had been forced to have sex by more than one person,” she said.
The lifetime prevalence of physical violence was 16% among all participants. Among female participants, it was 19% . Like sexual violence, physical violence was most often perpetrated by an intimate partner .
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