Background Homicide is an important cause of premature mortality globally, but evidence for
the magnitude of homicides by intimate partners is scarce and hampered by the large …

Violence against women and girls is prevalent worldwide but historically has been
overlooked and condoned. Growing international recognition of these violations creates …

Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) is very high in Africa. However, information
obtained from the increasing number of African studies on IPV among pregnant women has …

Violence against women is a phenomenon that persists in all countries. Since the 1993
World Conference on Human Rights and the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence …

Nurse–patient relationships are a substantially neglected area of empirical research, the
more so in developing than developed countries. Although nursing discourse usually …

Background Several highly publicised rapes and murders of young women in India and
South Africa have focused international attention on sexual violence. These cases are …

BACKGROUND: This study explores the concerns and experiences related to involuntary
childlessness of infertile women living in a diverse cultural urban community in South Africa …

This study examined the prevalence of and risk factors for intimate partner physical violence
against women. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 1,378 men working in Cape …

OBJECTIVE: To describe the prevalence of and risk factors for the perpetration of sexual
violence by men against female intimate partners. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was …

The purpose of this article is to describe mortality of women from intimate partner violence
(IPV) in South Africa using a retrospective national study in a proportionate random sample …