TITLE: Deadly Delay: South Africa's Efforts to Prevent HIV in Survivors
of Sexual Violence
AUTHOR: R. Schleifer
DATE: March 2004
PUBLISHER: Human Rights Watch
This report provides an assessment of the role of gender based violence in
HIV transmission and the current prevalence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South
Africa. It explains how the use of PEP can help prevent HIV infection and
describes the policy the government has adopted to provide access to PEP and
ARVs for all survivors of sexual violence. However, the government has not been
fully implemented these initiatives, and this report provides recommendations
for its success.
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