Evaluation and acute intervention with victims of violence.

AbstractAcademic writing often portrays migrants as either passive victims of violence and aid recipients or as courageous heroes facing horrific indifference and hazards. This article recodes them and their activities as potent forces for reshaping practices of state power. In this depiction, displacement also becomes a lens for re-evaluating the nature of sovereignty in urban Africa. Through its focus on Johannesburg this article explores how migrant communities intentionally and inadvertently evade, erode and exploit state policies, practices and shortcomings. Rather than being bound by their ambiguous status, they exploit their exclusion to exercise forms of autonomy and freedom in their engagement with the state and its street-level manifestations. Through these interactions, displacement and the continued mobility of urban residents is generating new forms of non-state-centric urban sovereignties and new patterns of transnational governance shaped, but not controlled, by state institutions. To recognize these evolving configurations we must look beyond Manichaean perspectives to see the full nature and degree of territorial control.

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Erratum to: Female and male victims of violence in an urban emergency room—prevalence, sociodemographic characteristics, alcohol intake, and injury patterns

Wiener klinische Wochenschrift ◽

10.1007/s00508-013-0383-6 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 125 (11-12) ◽

pp. 352-352 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nathalie Tatjana Burkert ◽

Éva Rásky ◽

Wolfgang Freidl ◽

Franziska Großschädl ◽

Johanna Muckenhuber ◽

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Keyword(s):

Emergency Room ◽

Alcohol Intake ◽

Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽

Male Victims ◽

Injury Patterns ◽

Victims Of Violence

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Quick and collaborative response to teenage pregnancies in a poor semi-rural area of Belgium

European Journal of Public Health ◽

10.1093/eurpub/ckaa165.1025 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽

Author(s):

V Déom ◽

L Ben Abdelhafidh ◽

N Annez ◽

C Glorie ◽

M Roland

Keyword(s):

Family Planning ◽

Reproductive Health ◽

Rural Areas ◽

Sexual And Reproductive Health ◽

Health Clinic ◽

Local Health ◽

Reproductive Health Services ◽

Sexually Transmitted ◽

Victims Of Violence ◽

The City

Abstract Early pregnancies are often linked to precarious situations. Even if Belgium has seen a decrease in teenage pregnancies, in the former mining region of the Hainaut there are still twice as many births to young women under 20 compared to the national rate. Colfontaine is one of the poorest cities in Belgium. Last year, one of the local high schools counted 10 pregnant teenagers out of 450 students. Médecins du Monde was already present in the city at the time with a mobile health clinic called the Médibus. In response, we carried out a mapping of the local sexual and reproductive health actors. The lack of accessibility to social and health structures capable of welcoming teenagers anonymously and free of charge quickly emerged as a problem, the nearest family planning center being located 30 minutes away by bus. In September 2019, in partnership with 5 local health actors, we decided to reshape the Médibus into the Adobus in order to offer family planning consultations, health promotion and harm reduction activities at the high school once a week. In addition to offering health information services, we also aim to detect teenagers experiencing vulnerable situations such as addiction, violence, gender issues and refer them to appropriate services. Halfway through the project, we met 430 teenagers in 14 afternoons. The most common reasons for consultation (N = 310) were questions related to contraception for 29% and to sexually transmitted infections for 24,5%. 70,9% of teenagers received condoms and 13 girls were tested for pregnancy. One girl received a morning-after pill. 3 teenagers with addiction problems and 17 victims of violence were detected. The teams referred 18 teenagers to other services. The success of this outreach project confirms the need for information regarding sexual and reproductive health for teenagers living in precarious situations as well as the need to develop reachable and affordable sexual and reproductive health services in semi-rural areas. Key messages Outreach is an efficient approach to respond to teenagers’ needs in poor semi-rural areas. Outreach facilitated the detection of early pregnancies, addiction and violence issues among teenagers.

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