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  1. 20 Jun

    WHO clinical & policy guidelines on responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women

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  2. 20 Jun

    Latest update on Middle East Respiratory Syndrome

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  3. 20 Jun

    Training all levels of health workers is important to recognize when women may be at risk of partner

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  4. 20 Jun

    Health sector needs to take against women more seriously. In many cases health workers simply do not know how to respond

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  5. 20 Jun

    Better care is needed for women who have experienced violence. They often seek without disclosing the cause of their

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  6. 20 Jun

    Fear of prevents many women from reporting non-partner sexual

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  7. 20 Jun

    Women who experience partner violence have a 16% greater chance of having a low birth-weight

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  8. 20 Jun

    Both partner violence and non-partner sexual violence are associated with unwanted

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  9. 20 Jun

    Women who experience physical, sexual partner violence are 1.5 times more likely to acquire , chlamydia, gonorrhoea

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  10. 20 Jun

    Women experiencing intimate partner violence R almost twice as likely to have problems w/ use as other women

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  11. 20 Jun

    Women who experience are twice as likely to experience depression compared to women who haven't experienced violence

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  12. 20 Jun

    Sexual violence impacts women’s health and well-being says report by WHO :

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  13. 20 Jun

    42% of women experiencing physical, sexual violence at the hands of a partner, are experiencing as a result

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  14. 20 Jun

    Thirty-eight per cent of all are murdered by their intimate partners

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  15. 20 Jun

    At least 1 in 3 women globally are affected by or sexual , most commonly by intimate partners

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  16. 20 Jun

    First systematic study by WHO and partners: against is extremely common

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  17. 19 Jun

    Where possible, providing adequate sanitation is also important to the control of parasitic worms

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  18. 19 Jun

    Periodic deworming with medicines is effective in controlling infections with parasitic worms

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  19. 19 Jun

    Symptoms of parasitic worm infections may incl. diarrhoea, abdominal pain, discomfort, weakness, impaired cognitive and physical development

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  20. 19 Jun

    Parasitic worms are transmitted by worm eggs present in human faeces which contaminate soil where sanitation is poor

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