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"There is nothing good about this job. Every day I think about whether to leave or continue, but I can't choose to leave, I have no money." Hamida Ajida (false name to protect her identity) says she has no choice: engaging in sex work is her only option. At 29, she has been in the business for three years now. She works in Dedza, a small, dusty town on the border with Mozambique where MSF runs the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Sexual Violence Program. Her story is the story of so many women in the same situation: Three years ago, Hamida ran a business selling vegetables and charckoal in Mangochi, where she was married with three children. Between her and her husband, they were supporting the family, but one day, without any explanation, her husband left her for another woman, a fact that changed Hamida's future: since then she could not support herself financially and had to start working as a sex worker in a bar in Dedza. In a weak voice and with her eyes on her knees, she says: "I started in 2020 to feed my children and my four siblings. Every month I have to send money for them, but it's never enough." Hamida charges 4,000 Malawi kwacha (3.20 euros) per service, and pays 2,500 kwacha a day to rent the room where she works. She says that when everything was going well she could have as many as 8 clients, but that is not the case now. "Nowadays I have one or even none. Many times I go to sleep on an empty stomach." 
She says the biggest challenge she faces is dealing with men who take advantage of her by not honoring price agreements. "When we finish, some clients take the money and leave. We have no one to protect us from threats and physical violence." Until three months ago, Hamida's three-year-old son lived with her in the room, but she took him away because the clients did not like having a baby hanging around the room. Thanks to the goodwill of Mercy, a woman who sometimes went to do laundry and food at the bar, Hamida managed to leave the son with her t

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تروي امرأة تتلقى الرعاية في برنامج منظمة أطباء بلا حدود للصحة الجنسية والإنجابية في ديدزا قصتها. موزمبيق، في أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2023.
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يؤثر العنف الجنسي على ملايين الأشخاص، ويحطّم حياة النساء والرجال والأطفال بوحشية. هي حالة طبية طارئة، ولكن غالبًا ما يكون هناك نقص حادّ في خدمات الرّعاية الصحية للضّحايا.

لا توجد إحصائيات تقدم صورة كاملة عن العنف الجنسي أو انتشاره. فالعار إذ يمنع الخوف والوصم والعديد من العقبات الأخرى عددًا غير معروف من الضّحايا من تلقي العلاج أو حتى السّعي للحصول عليه.

مع ذلك، فإنّ الحصول على رعاية طبيّة فوريّة بعد الاعتداء الجنسي أمر بالغ الأهميّة للحدّ من العواقب المحتملة.

في عام 2024، عالجت فرقنا أكثر من 73,800 من ضحايا العنف الجنسي؛ بزيادة قدرها 11,600 عن العام السابق.

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GEORGE ONDIJO IS A LAB TECHNICIAN AT NDIWAH HOSPITAL IN HOMA BAY COUNTY. HE IS IN CHARGE OF SPUTUM COLLECTION FOR TUBERCULOSIS DIAGNOSIS. THE USE OF MASK IS MANDATORY TO AVOID CONTAGION.
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