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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">HOW PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES EXPERIENCE PROGRAMS TO</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt">PREVENT INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, ACROSS 4 COUNTRIES</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#505050">Direct Link to Full April 2020 Science Direct – Elsevier - Text:
</span></b><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718919303155" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:blue">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718919303155</span></a><br>
Also Via SVRI – Sexual Violence Research Initiative<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#505050"></span></b></p>
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- </a><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718919303155#!" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style=""><span style="color:#0C7DBB; text-decoration:none">Ingrid van der Heijden</span></span><span style=""></span></a><span style=""></span><a name="baut0015">
- </a><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color:#0C7DBB; text-decoration:none"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718919303155#!" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); text-decoration: underline;">KristinDunkle</a><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718919303155#!"></a></span></span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149718919303155#!"><span style="text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"></span></a></span><span style=""></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#2E2E2E"></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">Participants living with disabilities across four countries reported similar experiences of stigma and discrimination.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">Barriers to participation for people with disabilities in violence prevention programs reflected community stigma and discrimination.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">Lessons learned for the inclusion of people with disabilities in violence prevention programs were identified.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">Inclusion could prevent violence, promote wellbeing and challenge disability-related discrimination.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">Women with disabilities are more vulnerable to violence, including intimate partner violence (IPV), yet the majority of emerging IPV prevention programs fail to explicitly consider
the needs of participants with disabilities. Women and men living with disabilities engaged with IPV prevention programs in four countries were interviewed to explore how disability shaped their experiences of gender, violence, IPV, and whether the programs
met their disability-related needs. In-depth interviews were conducted with 16 women and 15 men living with disabilities in Ghana, Rwanda, Tajikistan, and South Africa. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">The data were analyzed thematically and compared across the settings. Participants described experiencing disability-related stigma, discrimination, exclusion, and for women,
increased vulnerability to IPV. Barriers to full participation in programs included limited accessibility, and lack of disability-specific materials, recruitment or outreach. Enablers of inclusion included recruitment and monitoring strategies aimed at people
with disabilities, partnering with a local disabled people’s organization, training staff in disability inclusion, and raising awareness of disability rights. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:13.5pt; font-family:"Times New Roman",serif; color:#2E2E2E">The data encouragingly suggests that the inclusion of women and men with disabilities in IPV prevention programs designed for the general population has beneficial outcomes.
Inclusion can prevent violence, promote their wellbeing, support economic empowerment, and challenge disability-related stigma and discrimination</span></p>
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