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Recommendations for Reproductive and Sexual Health Care of Trafficked Women in Ukraine: Focus on STI/RTI Care

Document number
1115
Date
2005
Title
Recommendations for Reproductive and Sexual Health Care of Trafficked Women in Ukraine: Focus on STI/RTI Care
Author/publisher
Mazeda Hossain, Cathy Zimmerman, Charlotte Watts, Sarah Hawkes, IOM Ukraine, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, International Organization for Migration (IOM)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations, Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Interim Care, Health, Reflection period, Social assistance, Victim protection, Advocacy, Civil society, Poverty, Social exclusion, Health care, Social security,
Summary
As the International Organization for Migration (IOM) continues to expand its medical rehabilitation services for survivors of trafficking in Kyiv and through partnerships with local-level NGOs, it sought to develop standardised guidelines on the provision of reproductive and sexual health (RSH) care. Towards this end, it commissioned staff from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to review current practice and international guidelines, and to use this to develop Recommendations for Reproductive and Sexual Health Care of Trafficked Women in Ukraine. These recommendations are intended for use by IOM medical Rehabilitation Center staff, NGOs, partner agencies providing medical assistance, and local referral medical providers involved in reproductive and sexual health care. The purpose of these recommendations is to provide a set of RSH standards that correspond to nationally and internationally accepted quality standards to which IOM and its NGO partner agencies may refer when caring for women who have been trafficked.
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