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Health and Education Resource Centre
Though government institutions have allocated funding for responding to school-based sexual violence, the funding has been inconsistent and, as demonstrated by the persistence of staffing shortages, insufficient.
Intimate partner violence is a serious public health problem and negatively affects short-term and long-term health, development, and wellbeing of adolescent girls. Global estimates from WHO have shown that adolescent girls aged 15–19 years experience high rates of intimate partner violence.