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Responding to Congo's epidemic of violence against women

The rape itself was brutal enough, but the woman’s nearly severed hand shocked Susan Bartels.

It was early November and her first day working at Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, a provincial capital in the eastern Congo 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.

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