@article{ref1,
title="Increments of gender-based violence amid COVID-19 in Bangladesh: a threat to global public health and women's health",
journal="International journal of health planning and management",
year="2021",
author="Islam, Md Rabiul and Hossain, Md Jamal",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Sexual violence against women (SVAW) is one of the severe forms of gender-based violence. Sexual violence covers activities that vary from verbal sexual harassment to sexual pressure for involuntary penetration. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) defines sexual violence is &quot;any sexual act, attempt to obtain a sexual act or other act directed against a person's sexuality using coercion, by any person regardless of their relationship to the victim, in any setting.&quot; Globally, about 30% of women face sexual violence by their intimate partner or non-partner in their lifetime.1 Also, the severe form of SVAW is rape, defined as &quot;physical violence against the body with coerced penetration of the vulva, anus, or oral cavity&quot;. SVAW is an anti-human activity. It has many potential health consequences. Besides killing and suicidality, SVAW has some long-term impact on their reproductive, mental, and behavioural health. The violence against women has significantly increased across the world during health emergencies in the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, this increased sexual violence might create a long-term impact on their well-being even after the pandemic crisis.2 So, it is unacceptable, and there is no scope to see this as scattered incidences.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0749-6753",
doi="10.1002/hpm.3284",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hpm.3284"
}