Implementing a community-based approach of gender-based violence: Lay counselors ARE effective in providing survivors with access to facility-based services

Baptista, Ana

Saturday, March 21, 2015: 2:10 PM-3:30 PM

Room 2 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Ana Baptista, MD, Jhpiego Mozambique

Authors:
Argentina Balate, BSc, Jhpiego Mozambique
Alicia J. Saavedra, MD, MPH, Jhpiego Mozambique
Humberto N. Muquingue, MD, MSc, PhD, Jhpiego Mozambique
Ana Marranguene, N/A, Jhpiego Mozambique
Debora Bossemeyer, RN, MPH, Jhpiego Mozambique
Sergio Ndimande, BSc, Jhpiego Mozambique
Della M. Correia, MD, MPH, CDC Mozambique

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Presentation Format:
Innovative/Promising Practice Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Get acquainted with the roles played by lay counselors in a context where access to health services is minimal and gender-based violence is reinforced by cultural norms and stigma.
Identify the elements that make up a profile of gender based violence, which lay counselors help to create with their data on gender-based violence.
Incorporate new approach on gender based violence community activities Create approaches that can promote access to services

Description:
Lay counselors working on a door-to-door provide access to GBV information, education and screening to semirural communities with minimal access to conventional services in Mozambique. Counselors identified 180 survivors (1.3% of those screened) and provided a profile of GBV exposure: age, gender, place, time, perpetrator, type of violence, etc. While providing a critical service, they are the sole opportunity survivors have for disclosure, especially given that most violence happens in the confinement of the household, and clinics are scarce.