Answers to Frequently Asked Questions by Medical Professionals During Medical Examination of Survivors and Accused of Sexual Violence

This compilation is an outcome of a series of capacity building programs on Health sector response to violence against women and medico-legal care of survivors of sexual violence, organized for Civil Surgeons, Medical Superintendents and Gynecologists from District and Sub District hospitals of Maharashtra conducted by UNFPA in collaboration with Public Health Department and National Health Mission, Government of Maharashtra. In this document, questions raised during the training programs have been compiled. The compilation will be useful to medical professionals for examining survivors and accused of sexual violence. It will also prove useful for hospital administrators. It is to be used together with the MOHFW Guidelines and Protocols for medico-legal care for survivors/victims of sexual violence, 2014.