Mantula Fennie, Saloojee Haroon
a Department of Social Behavioural Sciences, Faculty of Medicine , University of Science and Technology , Bulawayo , Zimbabwe.
b Division of Community Paediatrics, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health , University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , South Africa.
J Child Sex Abus. 2016 Nov-Dec;25(8):866-880. doi: 10.1080/10538712.2016.1234533.
Although child sexual abuse is a significant public health problem globally, its incidence, prevention, and management is less well described in resource-poor settings. In poorer settings prevention initiatives assume even more importance since resources for managing abused children are severely limited. This article examines the current status of policy and practice related to the prevention of child sexual abuse in Zimbabwe. It identifies implementation challenges and highlights opportunities that could be embraced to reduce CSA in Zimbabwe, based on evidence synthesized from recent work. Although Zimbabwe has a well-established legal and regulatory framework to protect children from child sexual abuse, implementation of existing policies is weak. Financial, human, and material resource constraints are frequently cited to explain limited prevention activity. Effective strategies for the prevention of child sexual abuse should focus on implementing existing legislation, targeting schoolchildren, and getting community involvement. A dedicated budget would help entrench these strategies, but gains can be achieved even in the absence of this.
尽管儿童性虐待在全球范围内是一个重大的公共卫生问题，但在资源匮乏地区，其发生率、预防和管理情况却鲜为人知。在较贫困地区，预防举措显得更为重要，因为管理受虐儿童的资源极为有限。本文探讨了津巴布韦预防儿童性虐待相关政策和实践的现状。基于近期研究综合得出的证据，文章明确了实施过程中面临的挑战，并强调了可利用的机会，以减少津巴布韦的儿童性虐待现象。尽管津巴布韦拥有完善的法律和监管框架来保护儿童免受性虐待，但现有政策的实施力度薄弱。人们经常提到财政、人力和物力资源的限制，以解释预防活动的有限性。预防儿童性虐待的有效策略应侧重于执行现有法律、以在校学生为目标群体以及争取社区参与。专项预算将有助于巩固这些策略，但即便没有专项预算，也能取得成效。
