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Recommendation
Women who disclose any form of violence by an intimate partner (or other family member) or sexual assault by any perpetrator should be offered immediate support. Health-care providers should, as a minimum, offer firstline support when women disclose violence.If health-care providers are unable to provide firstline support, they should ensure that someone else (within their health-care setting or another that is easily accessible) is immediately available to do so
Recommended in favor
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Also Featured In
This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines
Consolidated guidelines on HIV testing services, 2019
Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach