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Standard Operating Procedures: For responding to violence against women/girls for healthcare settings

Author(s): CEHAT, MCGM, NUHM

Published Year: 2022

This Standard Operating Procedure has been based on Global Plan Action as well as experiences of public hospitals implementing a health system response to Violence against women ensuring quality of care for survivors of violence.

This document is signiﬁcant in Indian context where there has been a legal mandate for a health sector response under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA), 2005; Protection of Children from Sexual Offenses Act (POCSO), 2012; the Criminal Law Amendment to Rape (CLA), 2013 and the MoHFW Guidelines of 2014. Further, India's National Health Policy (NHP), 2017 gave a clear directive to the health sector to address gender-based violence. Read more