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U.S. President Donald Trump's administration cancelled a major contract to supply emergency kits for rape survivors in Congo ...
STORY: Medical kits like this can be life-saving for survivors of rape.But in Democratic Republic of Congo, where violence ...
The emergency kits include medication to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, as well as unwanted ...
A woman who previously worked with Newsboys alleges she was drugged by Michael Tait, who watched as she was raped.
The Legislature has set aside $180,000 for purchasing, storing, and distributing sexual-assault kits. These are packages of items used to collect evidence after an attack with the contents sent to a ...
A new book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit, tells the story of Marty Goddard, a Chicago woman responsible for inventing the rape kit.
A radical new scheme sees students handing out at-home DNA testing kits, to open up a conversation around rape. But will it work? We join them on campus to find out.
Rape kits meant assailants could be identified, survivors could present some hard evidence before court and rape could be investigated and treated as a serious crime. The first rape kits were named ...
The rape-kit backlog in the U.S. is especially mind-boggling when one considers exactly what a forensic exam demands of a patient. Antya Waegemann, ...
Kennedy spent years on the story, even writing a 2020 piece for the New York Times Magazine about Goddard’s role in the rape kit — which led to a number of people who knew Goddard to come ...