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This report concerns a campaign conducted by 25 NGOs to determine the extent to which Post Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) is available to survivors of sexual assault in South Africa and how this is being administered.
The campaign, which was coordinated by Gender Links, with technical support from the Aids Law Project (ALP) of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS), took place during the Sixteen Days of Activism on Gender Violence from 25 November to 10 December 2003.
The campaign involved spot checks at 32 health facilities: 13 hospitals and 19 clinics: 30 of these public and two private. The spot checks took place in seven provinces: Northern Cape, Free State, Mpumalanga, North West, Western Cape, Gauteng and KwaZulu Natal.
The ALP has conducted desktop research on PEP that proved inconclusive due to the difficulty of obtaining responses in many instances. This is the first on- the- ground survey to have been conducted since the government announced in April 2003 that this cocktail of anti-retroviral drugs that can help to reduce the chances of contracting HIV as a result of a sexual assault should become freely available.
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