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Sexual Violence Aimed At Girls, Women In Swaziland Linked To High HIV/AIDS Risk, Other Health Issues, Report Says
A new report commissioned by UNICEF and CDC and recently published in the journal Lancet found that one in three girls in Swaziland has experienced sexual violence by age 18, which can lead to serious health issues such as HIV, IRIN/PlusNews reports. In addition, the researchers found that 22% of Swazi women between ages 15 and 24 are HIV-positive, noting that sexual violence could be a common HIV transmission mode among women in high-burden countries such as Swaziland. Sexual violence was defined as forced sex, coerced sex and forced touching. Five percent of girls had experienced forced sex before age 18, and coerced intercourse was reported by 9% of girls, according to the report. In addition, almost 90% of girls who had experienced sexual violence said that it first occurred between ages 13 and 17. The authors recommended that efforts to address issues surrounding sexual violence should "focus on prevention of perpetration by men of sexual violence, and since sexual- and intimate-partner violence might have common roots, local and national initiatives could be reviewed, adapted and scaled up for this purpose." According to the researchers, three-quarters of the boys and men who perpetrated the sexual violence were related or known to the girls (IRIN/PlusNews, 5/13).
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As Patients Age, Future Physicians Develop End Of Life Skills

The American Medical Student Association (AMSA), the nation"s oldest and largest, independent association for physicians-in-training, is pleased to present the graduates of the AMSA Foundation-VITAS End of Life Education Fellowship Program. Five medical students have spent the past six weeks immersing themselves in end of life (EOL) care issues. The End of Life Education Fellowship Program is a six-week summer experience that combines an orientation to EOL care with weekly seminars and field placements at local hospices, nursing homes and inpatient units. VITAS, the nation"s leading provider of end-of-life care, has partnered with AMSA for the past five years. The program graduates are: - Dannie Chang, University of Michigan Medical School - Michelle Cormier, Florida State University College of Medicine - Brian Cousino, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine - April Morrison, Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine - Khash Touloei, Western University of Osteopathic Medicine Students were part of an interdisciplinary hospice team consisting of doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains, bereavement counselors and volunteers. They developed and practiced basic interviewing and communication skills essential to EOL care, while understanding the psychological, sociological, cultural and spiritual aspects of death and dying. While at their program sites, students developed EOL curricula to be implemented at their medical schools and to be shared with medical schools across the nation. "As the Baby Boomer generation ages, end of life skills are an essential part of medical education," says Dr. Lauren Hughes, MPH, AMSA national president. "AMSA urges all medical schools and residency programs to provide training to educate medical students and residents in issues of death and dying." For more information, please visit http://amsa.org/eol. American Medical Student Association


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