In this week's open access journal PLoS Medicine, Nayreen Daruwalla and colleagues describe the Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children, which serves clients coping with crisis and violence in the urban setting of Dharavi, Mumbai. In order to assist other developing crisis centres, the authors discuss factors that shaped the development of their Centre over six years. They emphasise how intervention is often guided by clients' desire to keep their families together. Successful intervention, the authors advise, requires strong links with health-care providers, police, legal services, and community-based organizations.
Funding: The Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children receives funding from individual donors and the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust. This work was also supported by the Wellcome Trust (Reference 081052). The study sponsors did not have a role in the writing of the report or in the decision to submit the paper for publication.
Citation: Daruwalla N, Fernandez A, Salam J, Shaikh N, Osrin D (2009) Conflict, Crisis, and Abuse in Dharavi, Mumbai: Experiences from Six Years at a Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000088. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000088
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CONTACTS:
Nayreen Daruwalla
Centre for Vulnerable Women and Children
Chota Sion Hospital, 60 Feet Road
Shahunagar, Dharavi
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400017
India
nayreen@snehamumbai.org
David Osrin
Imperial College London
Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford St
London, WC1N 1EH
United Kingdom
+44 207 905 2122
d.osrin@ich.ucl.ac.uk
THE FOLLOWING RESEARCH ARTICLE WILL ALSO BE PUBLISHED IN PLoS MEDICINE:
Studying the effects of early HIV infection on human antibody responses
Studying the effects of early HIV infection on human antibody responses, M. Anthony Moody (at Duke University Medical Center) and colleagues find rapid polyclonal B cell differentiation and structural damage to gut-associated lymphoid tissue.
Funding: This work was supported by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Division of AIDS for Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) (U19 AI067854). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Citation: Levesque MC, Moody MA, Hwang K-K, Marshall DJ, Whitesides JF, et al. (2009) Polyclonal B Cell Differentiation and Loss of Gastrointestinal Tract Germinal Centers in the Earliest Stages of HIV-1 Infection. PLoS Med 6(7): e1000107. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1000107
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EDITORS' SUMMARY: http://www.plos.org/press/plme-06-07-moody-summary.pdf
CONTACTS:
M Anthony Moody
Duke University Medical Center
Human Vaccine Institute
Box 103020 DUMC
Durham, NC 27710
United States of America
+1 919 668 2551
+1 919 882 9055 (fax)
moody007@mc.duke.edu
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Senior Media Relations Strategist
Duke University Medical Centre
Durham, NC
United States of America
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