Treating Rape Survivors from Allepo to Mosul
The RINJ Foundation is not doing “Virginity Tests” in clinics, it is doing STD tests and fully consented Physical Evidence Recovery Kits which help identify the rapist for later ICC
Also NP’s are administering antibiotics in RINJ makeshift clinics in the region. AS many as 80 to 100 patient sessions are done per week.
The mental health of the people we see is extremely fragile. There are many triggers capable of causing their state of mind to rapidly deteriorate. Living conditions they are forced to face, memories of their ordeal, and uncertainty about what is going to happen to these women are factors contributing to thoughts of suicide and eventual deaths.
These are invisible woundsand the worst we see are among the female children. Dealing with STD’s and other factors we have a bigger
underlying problem of mental health.
Cultural aspects like “Virginity Testing” we have been asked to do are not going to happen.
Some women seeking care in Northern Iraq and in Syria have shown fear on a religious basis. Persons (men) asking for a so-called “virginity” test of their female family members are refused. If the person is in our care it could be for a number of reasons, non of which anyone can assume and none we will specifically reveal.)
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