Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:24:27 +0000 By CHIKUMBI KATEBE OVER 80 percent recorded cases of sexual abuse involve children, says World Vision Survivor Support Programme Chief of Party, Annie Banda. Ms Banda said 82 percent of sexual abuse cases under Gender Based Violence (GBV) cited girls as young as 12 years, most of who have become pregnant or infected with HIV. Ms Banda based her statistics according to the World Vision GBV Survivor Support Programmes report. She said the programmes have targeted 16 districts across Zambia where women were being offered emergency medical attention for post-rape counselling and treatment. She said over 65,000 reports have been recorded at the one -stop facilities established at various health facilities in the country since 2012 at a cost of US $16 million. “Over 65 000 GBV cases have been reported to the one stop survival support centres managed by World Vision in 16 districts, with 10 percent of […]
