PRB

(September 2010) Program experience reveals that training health care providers and raising awareness about gender-based violence will not be enough. Rather, entire health systems need to respond, with linkages to legal and social services, to support women survivors of violence.The Crucial Role of Health Services in Responding to Gender-Based Violence examines why health services should address gender-based violence and highlights examples of health programs that have incorporated responses to violence into their work.

Health Services is a brief produced by the Population Reference Bureau for the Interagency Gender Working Group with funding provided by USAID under the BRIDGE Project.