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OUR PEOPLE,<br />
OUR MISSION<br />
Global Health<br />
<strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
<strong>February</strong> <strong>2023</strong><br />
Women’s Health Education<br />
Section Editor: Sarah Cordisco, RN<br />
Staff Nurse at the University of Vermont<br />
What Are We Missing?<br />
Written by Joshua Matusuko<br />
Medical Student at MaKCHS<br />
Commentary<br />
Highlights<br />
Reflections<br />
Voice of Uganda<br />
Voices of Hispanic/Latinx<br />
Global Local<br />
Innovation and Technology<br />
Art to Remind Us of<br />
Who We Can Be<br />
Our Beautiful Planet<br />
Nursing Division<br />
Womens Health<br />
News<br />
Among the Letters<br />
Article of the Month<br />
Congratulations<br />
Photo Gallery<br />
Calendar<br />
Resources<br />
Previous Issues of<br />
the <strong>eMagazine</strong><br />
While in the emergency department of Katakwi<br />
hospital in Katakwi district approximately seven<br />
hours from Kampala, a middle-aged woman is<br />
rushed in with a compound fracture in the left lower<br />
limb. Quick debridement is performed on her wound<br />
and immediately POP placement is complete. She<br />
is seemingly intoxicated with alcohol. As she cried<br />
and groaned in severe pain, I wondered what could have brought her into such<br />
an unfortunate circumstance. Review from her history indicates that she was<br />
beaten by her husband, with whom she co-habits, after a fight.<br />
Ethically, such a case should have to be reported to police for justice to take<br />
its course, but I was informed that the patient stopped health personnel from<br />
reporting the matter to police, stating that she loves her husband and that it was<br />
a small misunderstanding and an accident. The health workers further inform<br />
us that it’s not the first time she has reported to the hospital with traumatic<br />
wounds, allegedly from beatings from her husband and they note that soon<br />
she may get a more threatening injury. This is a common case of gender-based<br />
violence (GBV) that is tragically only one of tens of thousands of cases reported<br />
annually and many more thousands that go unreported.<br />
GBV cases reduced 6.1% from 85,101 in 2017 to 79,888 in 2018, increased<br />
consistently by 3.1% in the following year, and then 9.8% to 90.489 from 2019 to<br />
2020. There were over seven thousand GBV cases every month and 251 every<br />
day in 2020, up from 6,867 cases every month and 228 cases daily in 2019 and<br />
48,650 GBV cases from January to June 2021, about 1142 cases monthly and 38<br />
daily. The national prevalence of violence against, even married, women by a<br />
partner: physical violence: 22.3%, sexual (16.6%), physical and sexual (9.3%); all<br />
lower than violence against teenagers aged 15-19 years; physical (23.5%), sexual<br />
(16.8%), and physical and sexual violence at 9.4% respectively (UDHS 2016, UBOS).<br />
Bukedi sub-region registered the highest percent of physical violence (32.6%),<br />
sexual violence (37.1%), and physical and sexual violence (18.6%) whereas Ankole<br />
registered the highest percent in emotional violence at 48.6% (UDHS 2016,<br />
UBOS). Over nine thousand 9,954 girls aged 15-17 were defiled in 2020 over 300<br />
victims of defilement were by HIV positive persons. One-hundred-twenty girls<br />
were defiled by parents in 2020 up (42.9% increase) from 84 in 2019 and 17,664<br />
domestic violence cases in 2020, up by 29% from 13,693 in 2019. There were over<br />
eighteen thousand victims of domestic violence in 2020: 3,408 male adults,<br />
13,145 female adults, 1,133 male juveniles, and 1,186 female juveniles (Annual Police<br />
Crime Report, 2020). Over fourteen thousand defilement cases were reported<br />
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