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OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine March 2023 Highlights Reviews GH Narrative Reflections Hispanic and Latinx Voices Global Local Voices of Ugandan Students Nursing Division Women’s Health Education Innovation and Technology Our Beautiful Planet Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Article of the Month You’re Invited Photo News Calendar Global Health Family Resources Previous Issues of the eMagazine Women’s Health Education Section Editor: Sarah Cordisco, RN Staff Nurse at the University of Vermont Impact of Poverty on Sexual Abuse of Pre-Teens Written by D. Parekh MD (Volunteer doctor at Adult Rape Clinic), Harare, Zimbabwe Dr. Darshani Parekh - Senior Resident Medical Officer at Parirenyatwa General Hospital in Zimbabwe. She is also a volunteer doctor at the Adult Rape Clinic for the past 4 years. She is the Treasurer of the Zimbabwe Women Doctors’ Association since 2021 and has been the social media manager for the association since 2020. The awareness of sexual abuse in the world, especially in the rural communities, has increased. Sexual abuse awareness has definitely helped people in seeking adequate help and being aware of what is counted as sexual abuse. However, there is still a high incidence of late reporting in Zimbabwe. Poverty has been one of the greatest contributors to sexual abuse in the rural and urban areas of Zimbabwe. Poverty has a direct impact on the education level of most of the sexual abuse survivors. Most of the pre-teens who have presented to the hospital for sexual abuse have had little to no education for their age due to lack of funds. The lack of education has impacted the understanding of what sexual abuse is, as they will not be able to read or be in a school setup to be taught about sexual abuse. The parents of these children have also had minimal education as they were also brought up in similar circumstances and became parents at a young age. Thus, the parents do not teach their children about sexual abuse or signs of it as they were never taught to recognize it. The cultural taboo of not speaking about sex has also not been addressed in these communities yet and thus “the talk” is never done. This is a cycle in which most of the kids have been exposed to and thus are not fully aware of what sexual abuse is and that it is not right. In the impoverished background the children are mostly malnourished and thus are weak and easy targets for perpetrators. The poor background has made the children easy targets of abuse by the slightly well off members of the community. The children are usually easily bribed by the perpetrators with sweets or $1 to not tell anyone about the incidents. If the kids are not bribed, then they may be threatened to be killed if they tell anyone thus reporting late if they report at all. As stated above, poverty has a direct impact on the sexual abuse of teens. Poverty affects education level, nutrition status, and contributes to low selfworth. This is a cycle that can definitely be broken by providing more awareness in these sensitive areas, self-worth workshops, and family-building exercise for easier and faster communication. 28
OUR PEOPLE, OUR MISSION Global Health eMagazine March 2023 Highlights Reviews GH Narrative Reflections Hispanic and Latinx Voices Global Local Voices of Ugandan Students Innovation and Technology in Global Health Section Editor: Swapnil Parve, MD Written by Swapnil Parve, MD Director of International Affairs at the NH/ UVMLCOM Global Health Program A number of ground-breaking technologies have emerged in the twenty-first century that have changed the way we monitor our health. Wearables provide realtime information about some of the most important health parameters like heart rate, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and blood glucose levels. The use of handheld devices (smartphones, tablets) to perform echocardiography or pointof-care-ultrasound have revolutionized the way physicians approach patients. This month Dr. Elina Mukhametshina writes about how artificial intelligence sees global health. Nursing Division Women’s Health Education Innovation and Technology Our Beautiful Planet Art to Remind Us of Who We Can Be Article of the Month You’re Invited Photo News Calendar Global Health Family Resources Previous Issues of the eMagazine How Does Artificial Intelligence See Global Health? Written by Elina Mukhametshina, MD What kind of images come to mind when you think of Global Health? What sort of images appear when you google Global Health? In this article, I invite the readers to explore with me how Artificial Intelligence (AI) sees Global Health. Before we start gazing around the virtual museum exhibition curated by me and created by AI, I want to give a small introduction about the role of artificial intelligence in Art and explain in simple words how it works. Once I found out that AI has learned to create images, I became fascinated and curious about how the machine learning algorithm can create such impressive and realistic images/paintings almost immediately after a human types the description of the desired painting. Technology continued on next page >> 29
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