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Rape survivor care crisis - mines the worst?

Chris Bateman

Abstract


The dire need for better healthcare worker training in rape forensics and safe survivor care has never been better illustrated than by the horrifying rape statistics Medicins Sans Frontieres presented last month from the platinum-mining boom town of Rustenberg.


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Chris Bateman, Health and Medical Publishing Group, South Africa

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South African Medical Journal 2016;106(8):748. DOI:10.7196/SAMJ.2016.v106i8.11231

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Date submitted: 2016-06-27
Date published: 2016-07-18

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