The gender-based violence and recovery centre at Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya: An integrated care model for survivors of sexual violence

Marleen Temmerman; Emilomo Ogbe; Griffins Manguro; Iqbal Khandwalla; Mary Thiongo; Kishor N Mandaliya; Lou Dierick; Markus MacGill; Peter Gichangi

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002886

The gender-based violence and recovery centre at Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya: An integrated care model for survivors of sexual violence

PLoS Med. 2019 Aug 2;16(8):e1002886. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002886. eCollection 2019 Aug.

Authors

Marleen Temmerman^{1

2

3}, Emilomo Ogbe², Griffins Manguro¹, Iqbal Khandwalla⁴, Mary Thiongo¹, Kishor N Mandaliya¹, Lou Dierick¹, Markus MacGill⁵, Peter Gichangi^{1

2

6}

Affiliations

¹ International Centre for Reproductive Health, Mombasa, Kenya.
² International Centre for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
³ Aga Khan University, Nairobi, Kenya.
⁴ Coast Provincial General Hospital, Mombasa, Kenya.
⁵ Green Ink medical editing, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.
⁶ University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya.

Abstract

Marleen Temmerman and colleagues describe a model of care for people who have experienced sexual violence, set in Kenya.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Adult
Child
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated* / methods
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated* / organization & administration
Female
Hospitals, Public* / methods
Hospitals, Public* / organization & administration
Humans
Kenya
Male
Models, Organizational
Sex Factors
Sex Offenses*
Survivors / psychology
Young Adult

Grants and funding

The initial funding of the gender-based violence and recovery centre at Coast Provincial General Hospital was provided by Danida (Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs development assistance) and the Ministry of Health in Kenya. The centre receives continued support from the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH) Kenya, which has provided all the nonclinical staff for follow-up and paralegal assistance. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and private donors from Belgium also support the centre. ICRH at Ghent University made a payment to one of the authors (MM) to develop and edit the manuscript but had no role in the manuscript. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.