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UWI in meeting on Medical Management of Child Sexual Abuse

For Release Upon Receipt - November 12, 2012

St. Augustine


The Trinidad & Tobago Health Training Centre in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, The University of the West Indies (UWI), St. Augustine and other key stakeholders in local law enforcement and health services will meet to understand the scope of the problem of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) in Trinidad and Tobago on Monday 12th November 2012 at the Capital Plaza Hotel, (formerly Crowne Plaza) Port of Spain.

Dr Owen Hanmer, a Consultant Paediatrician at the Royal London Hospital will deliver the keynote address. Dr Hanmer has vast experience in general paediatrics and the multidisciplinary assessment of child physical and sexual abuse, non-organic failure to thrive and fictitious illnesses and was involved in the development of assessment and support processes for children and young people after sexual assault.

This conference forms part of the Child Sexual Abuse Training of Trainers Programme for Health Care Providers that runs from November 12th to 19th, 2012. It aims to sensitize the relevant stakeholder groups to the problem of CSA in the local and international context; to define their respective roles from the various perspectives of the family, the health care provider and Law Enforcement; and to understand the various requirements needed to organize and establish CSA clinical services locally.

For further information, contact Ms Leslie-Ann Archibald, Administrative Assistant, the Trinidad and Tobago Health Training Centre c/o UWI - Child Health Unit Faculty of Medical Sciences at 653-0038/5131, 662-9596 or via email at leslie-ann.archibald@sta.uwi.edu

 

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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