http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/stories/program/7589 Stories referencing a program (RSS) en http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/responding-congos-epidemic-violence-against-women <!--paging_filter--><p>The rape itself was brutal enough, but the woman’s nearly severed hand shocked <a title="" href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/node/20002">Susan Bartels</a>.</p><p>It was early November and her first day working at <a title="" href="http://www.panzihospitalbukavu.org/">Panzi Hospital in Bukavu</a>, a provincial capital in the eastern <a title="" href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/cg.html">Congo</a> on the front lines of an epidemic of violence against women that — as it did in this case — starts with rape and goes on from there. </p><p><a href="http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/medicine-health/articles/responding-congos-epidemic-violence-against-women">read more</a></p> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 11:22:24 -0500 404132862 20001 at http://harvardscience.harvard.edu