Experiences of women war-torture survivors in Uganda: implications for health and human rights.

From: Journal of International Women's Studies | Date: May 1, 2007| Author: Kakembo, Nassozi Margaret; Liebling-Kalifani, Helen; Marshall, Angela; Ojiambo-Ochieng, Ruth | Copyright information

The effect of the aggressive rapes left me with constant chest, back and abdominal pain. I get some treatment but still, from time to time it starts all over again. It was terrible (Woman discussing the effects of civil war during a Kamuli Parish focus group).

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