Tài liệu Báo cáo y học: "Facing medical care problems of victims of sexual violence in Goma/Eastern Democrati

Since 1998, the Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo has been torn by a military conflict characterized by extreme violence, mass population displacements and a collapse of public health services [1,2]. A particular atrocity of the war is widespread sexual violence [3,4]. Systematic rape and unleashed sexual brutality against femalesisusedbysoldiersandothercombatantsasa weapon of war and has become known as the “war within the war” [5]. A retrospective cohort study evaluated the patterns of sexual violence of women presenting to a