| DAY 1 - Monday, 6 July 2009 |
| 09:00 - 20:00 |
Conference Registration |
| 10:00 - 16:00 |
Pre-Conference Workshops |
| 18:00 - 19:00 |
Opening Session |
Session Chair
Prof Jill Astbury, Victoria University in Melbourne, Australia |
Welcome and introductions to the conference (pdf format, 221 kb)
Ms Liz Dartnall, SVRI Executive Director
Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno, Chair SVRI Forum 2009 Coordinating Committee,
Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization |
Keynote Address
Advocate Thoko Majokweni (pdf format, 54 kb), Special Director: Sexual Offences and
Community Affairs (SOCA) Unit in the National Prosecuting Authority,
South Africa |
| 19:00 - 21:00 |
Welcome Cocktail Function |
| DAY 2 - Tuesday, 7 July 2009 |
| 07:00 - 18:00 |
Conference Registration |
| 08:50 - 09:00 |
Welcome Session
Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Chair SVRI Forum 2009 Coordinating Committee, Department of Reproductive Health and
Research, WHO |
| 09:00 - 11:00 |
PLENARY SESSION
Primary Prevention: stopping sexual violence before it happens
Session Chair: Dean Peacock |
Men's use of physical and sexual violence against women: Initial finding from the
International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) (pdf format, 91 kb)
Prof Rachel Jewkes |
Engaging boys and young men in the prevention of sexual violence (pdf format, 665 kb)
Christine Ricardo |
Impact evaluation: prevention of sexual and physical violence against women in the
home (pdf format, 415 kb)
Dr Jeannie Annan |
Giving the primary prevention of violence against women a sporting chance (pdf format, 3193 kb)
Dr Melanie Heenan |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee/Tea Break - Poster display |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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Parallel Session 1: Mental Health
Session Chair: Prof Mary Koss |
Prevalence, patterning and mental health outcomes of forced sex in young Australian
women (pdf format, 346 kb)
Prof Jill Astbury |
Dead or alive? The effects of sexual violence and its aftermath on the mental health of victim-survivors (pdf format, 86 kb)
Dr Shazneen Commissariat Limjerwala |
Sexual violence and mental health: Developing locally appropriate measures of the effect of service delivery on improving the psychological and social well-being of clients (DRC) (pdf format, 247 kb)
Sarah Spencer |
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Parallel Session 2: Youth and Sexual Violence in the African region
Session Chair: Dr Alex Muhereza |
Understanding Sexual Violence in the Context of Adolescents‘ Constructions and Conceptualisations of Intimate Relationships (pdf format, 1054 kb)
Anik Gevers |
Prevalence, pattern, determinants and mental health consequences of sexual violence among female undergraduate students in Calabar, Southern Nigeria (pdf format, 487 kb)
Dr Bridget Nwagbara |
Male sexual undesirability as a factor in the sexual violence experiences of female university students (pdf format, 2802 kb)
Tsitsi B Masvawure |
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Parallel Session 3: Sexual Violence in Global Diversity I
Session Chair: Sylvie Olifson-Houriet |
Causes and consequences of intimate partner rape/violence: experiences of selected married women in Nigeria (pdf format, 769 kb)
Dr Mary Esere |
Rape and incest in Cameroon (pdf format, 750 kb)
Dr Tiokou Ndoko Flavien |
HIV/AIDS and Sexual Violence Risk Behaviours in Contexts of Abrupt Gender-Role
Change: A Mixed Methods Study from rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (pdf format, 346 kb)
Prof Rosemary Jolly |
Talking about rape: South African men's responses to questions about rape (pdf format, 1835 kb)
Yandisa Sikweyiya |
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Roundtable: Sexual Violence in the Latin American and Caribbean Region
Session Chair: Alessandra Guedes |
Sexual Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean (pdf format, 162 kb)
Dr Manuel Contreras-Urbina |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch - Poster display |
| 14:30 - 16:30 |
PLENARY SESSION
Responding to Sexual Violence
Session Chair: Dr Naeemah Abrahams |
A Situation Analysis of Care and Support for Rape Survivors at First Point of Contact in
India and Bangladesh (pdf format, 400 kb)
Dr ME Khan |
Health care services for victims/survivors of sexual violence: the State of Services in
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala (pdf format, 2614 kb)
Yolanda Paredes-Gaitan |
Lessons learned in providing SGBV service in Africa: A review of emerging evidence. (pdf format, 256 kb)
Dr Jill Keesbury |
The Health Service Response to Violence Against Women: Lessons From IPPF
Associations in Latin America (pdf format, 161 kb)
Alessandra Guedes |
| 16:30 - 17:00 |
Coffee Break - Poster display |
| 17:00 - 18:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS |
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Roundtable: Primary Prevention
Session Chair: Dr Malanie Heenan and Vanessa Swan
Taking the primary prevention of sexual violence seriously - Australian initiatives |
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Roundtable: Sexual Reproductive Health Rights
Session Chair: Johanna Kehler
Bridging the Gap: Cross-Cutting Strategies to Address the Intersection of HIV and Sexual
Violence from the Perspective of HIV Positive Women |
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Report Launch |
| Masculinities and public policy in South Africa: changing masculinities and
working toward gender equality |
| DAY 3 - Wednesday, 8 July 2009 |
| 09:00 - 11:00 |
PLENARY SESSION
Sexual Violence in Conflict and Emergency Settings
Session Chair: Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno |
Experiences of Female Survivors of Sexual Violence in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: A mixed-methods study (pdf format, 871 kb)
Jocelyn Kelly |
Comparison of exposure to sexual violence in camp-settled and self-settled refugee
populations, West Nile, Uganda (pdf format, 628 kb)
Elizabeth Rowley |
Battles on Women's Bodies War, rape and traumatisation in eastern Democratic Republic
of Congo (pdf format, 1353 kb)
Jill Trenholm |
Access and utilization of health sector responses to sexual violence in conflict and post-
conflict settings: the case of Northern Uganda (pdf format, 65 kb)
Veronica Nakijoba |
Women War Survivors of the 1989-2003 Conflict in Liberia: The Health Consequences of
Sexual Torture (pdf format, 663 kb)
Ruth Ojiambo-Ochieng |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break - Poster display |
| 11:30 - 13:00 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Parallel Session 1: Responses to Sexual Violence
Session Chair: Carol Ajema |
From Paper to Practice: Lessons in policy implementation (pdf format, 98 kb)
Lisa Vetten |
Medico-legal findings, case progression and legal outcomes in South African rape cases: A cross-sectional study (pdf format, 46 kb)
Prof Rachel Jewkes |
Sexual Violence and Primary Health Care Workers: Identification of training and collaborative needs (pdf format, 285 kb)
Dr Olufunmilayo Fawole |
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Parallel Session 2: Child Sexual Abuse
Session Chair: Prof Jill Astbury |
Exploring the mental health needs of children (pdf format, 388 kb)
Shanaaz Mathews |
Survivor perspectives for improving postnatal service delivery with child sexual abuse survivors (pdf format, 94 kb)
Dr Jan Coles |
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Association with HIV Risk in Female Adolescents and Youth in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina: Understanding knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and self-efficacy (pdf format, 250 kb)
Ms Emily Herzberg |
Child sexual abuse in Nicaragua: clinical responses and the impact of short-term therapeutic treatment (pdf format, 731 kb)
Abbie Shepard Fields |
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Parallel Session 3: Sexual Violence and HIV
Session Chair: Jean Kemitare |
A systematic review of the influence of sexual coercion on sexual risk behaviour, physical
abuse and substance use among adolescents (pdf format, 629 kb)
Jerusha Soomar |
Child sexual abuse and links to HIV and orphanhood in urban Zimbabwe (pdf format, 159 kb)
Eunice Lyn Garura |
Adherence to Post Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV among victims of sexual violence in Monrovia, Liberia (pdf format, 139 kb)
Dr Rebecca Singer |
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Parallel Session 4: Sexual Violence in Muslim Societies
Session Chair: Dr Wanjiru Mukoma |
The hidden figure; sexual intimate partner violence among Pakistani Women (pdf format,1718 kb)
Dr Mufiza Zia Kapadia |
Transgression that contributes to gender based violence in Egypt (pdf format, 531 kb)
Dr Yehia Gado |
National research on domestic violence against women in Turkey:
prevalence of sexual violence and implications for prevention (pdf format, 848 kb)
Dr Henrica A.F.M. (Henriette) Jansen |
| 13:00 - 14:30 |
Lunch - Poster display |
| 14:30 - 16:30 |
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Parallel Session 1: Toward a Comprehensive Response to Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Session Chair: Dr Jill Keesbury
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Innovative responses to the management of sexual violence in a public setting in Gauteng, SA (pdf format, 1499 kb)
Mohau Makhosane |
Chain of evidence for post-rape care services: Lessons learnt in Kenya (pdf format, 1349 kb)
Carol Ajema |
Linking the community to the health center: Strategies to improve follow-up care (pdf format, 771 kb)
Fiona Nicholson |
Linking the police and health sectors through the provision of EC (pdf format, 545 kb)
Dr Jonathan Mwansa Kaunda |
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Parallel Session 2: Sexual Violence in Conflict
Session Chair: Dr Saiqa Mullick |
Emergency contraception as an entry point to providing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health care services in emergency settings: the Maries Stopes experience in Kenya (pdf format, 130 kb)
Dr Walter Odhiambo |
Rape and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Militia attitudes towards combat and sexual violence (pdf format, 603 kb)
Jocelyn Kelly |
Prevalence and determinants of sexual violence in Uganda (pdf format, 921 kb)
Dr Joy Nayiga |
Challenges in availability & utilization of clinical services for rape survivors in a post conflict setting: A case study of in Northern Uganda (pdf format, 225 kb)
Dr Alex Muhereza |
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Parallel Session 3: Sexual Violence in Global Diversity II
Session Chair: Prof Ia Verulashvili |
A custom distorted: Beliefs about sexual abuse involving teenagers with intellectual disability at a rural setting in South Africa (pdf format, 53 kb)
Dr Nareadi Phasha |
Labeled for life: A study on witches and witchcraft in Rajasthan (pdf format, 68 kb)
Prof Kanchan Mathur |
Sexual and physical partner and non-partner violence in a conflict affected setting: Preliminary findings from Cote d’ Ivoire (pdf format, 690 kb)
Mazeda Hossain |
Awareness, perception and practice of female genital mutilation among expectant mothers in Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, North Central Nigeria (pdf format, 235 kb)
Dr Osayande Osagie |
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Parallel Session 4: Men as Victims of Sexual Violence
Session Chair: Dr Manuel Contreras-Urbina |
Manhood, violence and coercive sexualities in men’s prisons: Dynamics and consequences
behind bars and beyond (pdf format, 94 kb)
Sasha Gear |
A Public Health and Human Rights Crisis: Sexual Violence in South African Detention Facilities (pdf format, 79 kb)
Cynthia Totten |
Force and temptation: contrasting South African men’s accounts of coercion into sex by men and women (pdf format, 866 kb)
Yandisa Sikweyiya |
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Satellite Meeting: Raising voices (pdf format, 413 kb) |
| 18:00 - 23:00 |
Gala Dinner: Carnivore Restaurant |
| DAY 4 - Thursday, 9 July 2009 |
| 9:00 - 11:00 |
PLENARY SESSION
Sexual Violence and HIV
Session Chair: Dr Mary Ellsberg
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Rape and HIV: Lessons from South Africa (pdf format, 87 kb)
Prof Rachel Jewkes |
HIV/AIDS and rape: modelling predictions of the increase in individual risk of HIV infection
from forced sex in conflict and post-conflict settings (pdf format, 272 kb)
Dr Mazeda Hossain |
Exploring the role of stigma of rape and HIV on women's compliance to PEP after rape (pdf format, 828 kb)
Dr Naeemah Abrahams |
Experience of GBV and economically motivated sex among unmarried African American
and white women in the US: results from a national telephone survey (pdf format, 2429 kb)
Dr Kristin Dunkle |
SASA! Generating evidence for VAW primary prevention programs (pdf format, 453 kb)
Evelyn Letiyo |
| 11:00 - 11:30 |
Coffee Break - Poster display |
| 11:30 - 12:30 |
CLOSING SESSION
Session Chair: Dr Claudia Garcia-Moreno
Research and Sexual Violence: Moving the Agenda Forward
Prize-giving |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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