Sexual violence

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 395-408

  Tavara, Luis ^a  

^a Comm on Sexual and Reproductive Rights FLASOG ^*  (Peru)

Author keywords

rape; sexual abuse; sexual assault; sexual violence; violence against women

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; AZITHROMYCIN; BENZATHINE PENICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS LEVONORGESTREL; HEPATITIS B VACCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INDINAVIR; LAMIVUDINE; LEVONORGESTREL; METRONIDAZOLE; MIFEPRISTONE; NUCLEOSIDE ANALOG; POSTCOITUS CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; TETANUS ANTIBODY; TETANUS TOXOID; ZIDOVUDINE;

ANAMNESIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; GONORRHEA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN RIGHTS; PENICILLIN ALLERGY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYPHILIS; TETANUS; TRICHOMONIASIS; UNITED NATIONS; VAGINITIS; VICTIM; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

CRIME VICTIMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; SEX OFFENSES; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 33746526107     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2006.01.011     Document Type: Review

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