South Sudan Medical Journal - November 2023 Gender-Based Violence

Dear reader,

Our November issue on gender-based violence (GBV) is online here. See details below; we thank the many people who contributed to this important topic.
 
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For example: “The South Sudan Medical Journal’s November issue tackles gender-based violence @SSMedJournal #SouthSudan #SSOT” or retweet from @SSMedJournal
 

EDITORIAL

• Ending GBV in South Sudan Anne Pita Lomole

RESEARCH ARTICLES

• Maternal socio-economic and neonatal medical characteristics associated with survival of preterm neonates in Torit State Hospital, South Sudan: a descriptive cross-sectional study Beatrice Doki, Pontius Bayo and Ronald Jada
• Factors associated with maternal deaths in Bongor Provincial Hospital, Chad Gabkika Bray Madoué, Allarehene Noudjalbaye, Saleh Abdelsalam, Kainba Passoret, and Diguisna Kadam

FOCUS ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

• Gender-Based Violence: How South Sudan is fighting back Nyakomi Adwok
• Clinical management of rape survivors Koma Akim
• One Stop Centre for the survivors of sexual and gender-based violence at Juba Teaching Hospital Busiri Julius Korsuk
• SSMJ talks to Data Gordon about Men4Women Ann Burgess and Data Gordon
• Ask the GBV experts Koma Akim and Nyakomi Adwok
• The reality of GBV: The story of a South Sudanese girl child in Kenya Nyajuok Tongyik
• 16 Days of Activism Against GBV Rita Martin Lopidia  
• Resources on gender-based violence/violence against women and girls related to South Sudan
• GBV Educational/Training Resources

SHORT COMMUNICATIONS

• Applications for postgraduate Training Gordon Memorial College Trust Fund (GMCTF)
• Letter to the Editor
• Obituary: Dr Bashir Aggrey Abbas Meseka 
• Obituary: Dr Peter Lado Aggrey Jaden

FRONT AND BACK COVERS IMAGES: From Tales of Lala, No to GBV (Credit: Crown the Woman, South Sudan)
 
Our articles are listed by African Journals Online (AJOL) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) as well as being on our website. SSMJ is included in the EBSCO scientific research collection.

The SSMJ team
Email: southsudanmedicaljournal AT gmail.com
Website: http://www.southsudanmedicaljournal.com
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New Voices Conference Women and their Body

Dear all,

Please find here the invitation for attending the Conference Women and their body in March 2023:

The conference Women and their Body aims at breaking the silence!

 Together, the Humanities and the Cultural Studies take a stand on the explosive topic Women’s right over their Own Body. Recent and even past events in numerous countries ask for a statement, formulated by many scholars from different research fields.

Recent events have shown that it is urgent and fundamentally important to shed new light, through philosophical, linguistic, literary, scientific, medical and artistic perspectives, on the female body and the position of women in relation to their body. Too often it seems that women do not have the right to determine their own body, although men have never been deprived of this right. The question of power over the body is strongly linked to the distinction between men and women. It seems that men have more rights and power on their own body than women. But how is this possible? What is the status of the female body in culture and society? Why is the female body both, an object of desire and a battlefield for demonstrating male power? To what extent have medicine and technology interfered in recent years with the female body and with what consequences?

On March 15^th, 16^th and 17^th 2023, the international, hybrid conference, organised by Dr. Jil Muller, at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn, directed by Prof. Ruth E. Hagengruber, will shed light on this issue. Everyone is welcome to attend the conference, via Zoom or in person in Paderborn. Please note that the in-person places are limited.

Please use the registration tool to register for the conference:
https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/21/

The preliminary program can be found here:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-conference-women-and-their-body/

For further information or any question, please feel free to send an email to
contact AT historyofwomenphilosophers.org

Dr. Jil Muller
Assistant Professor, Post-doc Researcher
Philosophy Department, Paderborn University:
https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/en/fach-philosophie/personal/personen/91668
Deputy Head and Researcher at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/about/team/
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber

Universität Paderborn
Raum TP 21.2.31
Technologie Park 21
33100 Paderborn
Germany

My source:
Philos-L "The Liverpool List" https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/philosophy/philos-l/
Twitter @PhilosL. Department of Philosophy @LiverpoolPhi

"Suffering in Silence" c/o David Robertson

 INDIVIDUAL
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   INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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GROUP

Suffering in Silence, 2018. Woodcut, each 2000 x 910 mm. Installation: 2400 x 5500 x 5500 mm

"David Robertson’s immersive print installation explores the stigma around mental health and the difficulties men have in reaching out for help. Consisting of 25 life-sized men, the figure is a self-portrait but is representative of any man. Formed of tally marks, each mark representing an individual." ...
[my emphasis].

The Holburne Museum:
https://www.holburne.org/events/holburne-open-david-robertson/

Image: With thanks to David Robertson

David Robertson
www.davidrobertsonprintmaker.com
QEST Scholar
Instagram.com/multiple_of_one 

My source: Printmaking Today Summer 2022, 31:122, p.7.
https://www.cellopress.co.uk/page/printmaking-today

Symposium on challenging the notion of evidence: bringing rights into research

Dear Colleagues,

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters (SRHM) is organising a symposium in New Delhi, India and online on enhancing the ecosystem of rights and evidence in sexual and reproductive health.

SRHM Journal

The symposium will create space for dialogue on:

- Deconstructing the notion and hierarchy of evidence
- Pushing methodological boundaries in SRHR research
- Questioning what constitutes “evidence-based”, a "researcher", and what is “scientifically appropriate”
- Questioning the power in research

This event is part of SRHM's global and South Asia hub initiative on rights-based knowledge creation.

Date: Friday May 6, 2022

Time: 10:30-1:00pm GMT - 4:00-6:30pm New Delhi

Register to attend in person in New Delhi: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/challenging-the-notion-of-evidence-bringing-rights-into-research-tickets-324001506227

Register to attend online: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nB3Qxr-1Rs2e0blPb_J0JA

Please feel free to share with your network. We hope to see you at the event!

Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters
www.srhm.org | www.srhmjournal.org
Twitter: @SRHMJournal | FB: @SRHMJournal

 

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GROUP

Mental Health Sexual and Reproductive Health Education - [Health] Literacy Questions: what constitutes “evidence-based”, a "researcher", and what is “scientifically appropriate”? Methodology SUBJECTIVITY - QUALITATIVE	Physical Health [Literacy] Sexual and Reproductive Health Hierarchy of Evidence Methods ... the Power in Research OBJECTIVITY - QUANTITATIVE
Society, Culture, Ethnographic Sexual and Reproductive Health	Human Rights Sexual and Reproductive Health

My source: HIFA

Power equation image: 

https://kaiserscience.wordpress.com/physics/word-energy-and-power/power/power-formula/

Mirror 4: 'Health Career' = life chances

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - population

Zhang Hui, Just Like in the Mirror 2, 2018. Oil on canvas, 120.5 x 80 cm.	...

Meditations in an Emergency
May 21–August 30, 2020
UCCA

My source:

Dally, J. (2020) The art world gets back to business. Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 23-24 May, p.11.

Image source:
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/329368/meditations-in-an-emergency/

Barber's model of hairdressing - "Care in the Community"?

Through the 1980s and 90s when models of nursing and nursing theory were flavour of the month, I remember a conversation that being so numerous, there was no doubt a "Model of Hairdressing" too. This is not to denigrate hairdressing in anyway (not at all Sis!).  I've actually considered this as a demonstration of the scope of Hodges' model. This post even prompted me to check the previous 2379 to see if I've been here before on W2tQ, but it appears not. (I do have an article somewhere - a parody on 'models of care'.)

There is a developmental tale here though, that is itself interesting. The story runs from the late 90s early 2000s thinking about hair, its qualities, scalp problems, nits (and diplomacy), health and safety at work, the equipment, the pictures displayed - advertising, ingredients, person-centredness, position - comfort and mobility, safety with some preparations and processes, gender and cultural aspects, the history of barbers and of the other 'services': ("Something for the weekend sir?"). So clearly hairdressing like all employment can be complex and rewarding. In addition: there are hosts of medical conditions and psychological factors (for example, self neglect*, phobias, children's reactions) that can affect the hair; its care, management, loss and compensating for this (with specialist help) as needed.

The social event that a visit to the hairdressers / barbers invites, was apparent as a child recalling my mother's former visits and the local 'news' that followed afterwards. In the later 2000's the need for dementia friendly communities was a further development. Business owners can see changes in their regular customers too. Many businesses seek to sustain this awareness and sensitivity in their approach and business. On my visits, the whole process is very relaxing. A further invitation as we shift from the sinks to the chair and mirror. There we are reflected in a before and after. The banter may also include the aspirations and educational options as students work through part-time work. As you may also have heard, over the past few years the actual and potential role of barber's in mental health has been more formally recognised:

https://www.thelionsbarbercollective.com/about-us/

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/hairdresser-suicide-prevention-mental-health-tom-chapman-safe-space-torquay-a7644021.html

Recognised also in the arts:

individual - SELF

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

talk - HUMANISTIC - chat ----------------------------------------------- snip - MECHANISTIC - buzz..

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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OTHERS - population

Mental health	Physical health
	Public mental health policy

*What are the thresholds that pertain here - no doubt there are several - compounded?

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

The 16 days ends on International Human Rights Day (December 10).

Image source email from: http://www.usaid.gov/