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This report examines states' recent payment strategies for sexual assault forensic exams and the strategies' strengths and shortcomings.

Seeking Safety is an empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse. This website provides implementation tools, sample topics, research summaries, articles, and assessment tools related to the program.

This report shows that physicians tend to be inadequately prepared to respond to patients who have experienced domestic violence, and that physicians' response to immigrant women who have been abused tend to be influenced by stereotypes about violence within the cultural groups. The report also discusses issues related to disclosure of violence for immigrant women. Recommendations of the report emphasize the need for health care providers to be more educated and aware of the health care impacts of violence.

This guide offers tips for service providers in addressing one of the most serious health issues for gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) men. Includes guidelines for education, workplace environment, assessment, response, and safety planning.

This article discusses the importance of coding and documenting domestic violence by health care providers to improve services for victims and to increase knowledge about the impact of domestic violence on patients' health.

This article underscores the need for policies that meet the needs of survivors of domestic violence who learn they are also HIV positive.

This article proposes involving physicians in domestic violence intervention in four key areas (AVDR): asking all patients about abuse; validating the message that battering is wrong and confirming the patient's worth; documenting signs, symptoms, and disclosures; and referring victims to domestic violence specialists. According to the author, the AVDR approach would allow physicians to be proactive in responding to domestic violence.

This study examines the importance of social and demographic characteristics, attitudes towards condom effectiveness against HIV, fertility intentions and power dynamics as predictors of condom use.

This paper explains the possible types and etiologies for traumatic injuries, neurochemical changes and structural alterations that may occur in the brain as a result of intimate violence, most of which are not being diagnosed.

This article describes a framework for understanding risk reduction strategies while understanding power dynamics in heterosexual relationships.

This publication discusses gender-based violence from a feminist-based, ecological perspective. It examines the dynamics of abuse, cultural context, impact on women's health & how health care providers can contribute to social change efforts.

This article presents clinical guidelines on routine screening for domestic violence by primary health care providers. Appendices include a glossary of terms, suggested screening questions, and a sample domestic violence screening documentation form.