Citation

Schuler SR, Trang QT, Ha VS, Anh HT. Violence Against Women 2011; 17(11): 1421-1441.

Affiliation

FHI360, Washington, DC, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801211433990

PMID

22240404

Abstract

This article describes an action research project designed to engage women, health providers, and communities to respond to gender-based violence (GBV) in Vietnam. Based on results from in-depth interviews and group discussions, it considers the extent to which the project approaches were empowering for abused women. The results underscore the problems entailed in introducing systematic screening for gender-based violence into government health facilities in the low-resource setting of Vietnam, the importance of combining ideational change and rights components with support for abused women, and the difficulty of engaging male perpetrators.

Language: en