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Violence Prevention Program

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Violence Prevention

Violence Against Women

Violence Against Children

Youth violence

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 2019

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Events

October 7-8, 2019, Experts’ Meeting on Strengthening the Public Health Approach to Youth Violence in the Americas, Washington, DC

October 3, 2019 Side event to the 57th Directing Council on Addressing Violence in the Americas: What more can be done?, Washington, DC

May 28-31, 2019 Strengthening the health system to address violence against women: Training of trainers for health care providers. Jamaica 

December 2-5, 2018 - PAHO co-sponsors the II Caribbean Conference of the International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) 

Nov. 29, 2018 - Violence Against Women in the Americas: Data and Action 

Sept. 4-6, 2018 - Strengthening the capacity of health care providers to respond to violence against women in Guatemala (in Spanish)

Apr. 4-5, 2018 - Violence in childhood and adolescence in Dominican Republic (in Spanish)

Dec. 1, 2017 - Connecting the Dots: Examining the intersections between violence against women and violence against children

Sept. 18-21, 2017 - Sexual Violence Research Initiative Forum 

March 21-23, 2017- INSPIRE: Seven strategies for ending violence against children - Expert consultation to finalize coverage and impact indicators

March 15-17, 2017- Workshop: Strengthening the capacity of health systems to prevent and respond to violence against women

Feb. 7-8, 2017- Regional Meeting on Prevention and Response to Violence Against Girls, Boys and Adolescents

Violence against women & against children

PAHO/WHO's Key Areas For Action

PAHO/WHO has a long history of working to improve prevention of and response to violence against women and violence against children.

Below are four priority areas for violence prevention in the region:

  1. Improving the scope, quality, dissemination and use of data on violence against women and violence against children for evidence-based policy and programming.
  2. Strengthening capacity for preventing violence against women and children.
  3. Improving the health sector response to violence against women and violence against children.
  4. Supporting the development and revision of national policies and plans on violence prevention and response including specific policies and plans for addressing violence against women.

 Violence Women Children Key areas EN 2018Download the full document: Violence against women and violence against children: What Can Health Systems do?