Gruber Janet
Afr J AIDS Res. 2005 Nov;4(2):69-73. doi: 10.2989/16085900509490344.
This paper considers the impacts of sexual violence perpetrated while the Eritrean town of Senafe was occupied by the Ethiopian military in 2000, during the second Ethiopia-Eritrea war. It discusses the aftermath for the survivors, all women and girls belonging to the Saho ethnic group, and the responses of other groups in the Saho community. An attempt is made to understand the reasons for the failure of one intervention that sought to provide support to these survivors of sexual violence. The potential repercussions of community denial of the sexual violence are addressed. These include lack of access by survivors to information on HIV, testing and care; refusal to face up to the possible infection of survivors, their husbands and unborn children, and to the psychological, social and economic impacts of HIV/AIDS.
本文探讨了2000年第二次埃塞俄比亚-厄立特里亚战争期间，埃塞俄比亚军队占领厄立特里亚城镇塞纳费期间发生的性暴力的影响。文中讨论了这些幸存者（均为属于萨霍族的妇女和女孩）所面临的后果，以及萨霍社区中其他群体的反应。本文试图理解一项旨在为这些性暴力幸存者提供支持的干预措施失败的原因。文中还探讨了社区否认性暴力可能产生的影响，包括幸存者无法获取有关艾滋病毒、检测和护理的信息；拒绝面对幸存者、其丈夫和未出生子女可能感染艾滋病毒的情况，以及艾滋病毒/艾滋病对心理、社会和经济方面的影响。
