Bibliographic Info
Recommendation
Recommended in favor
Strong
Certainty of evidence
Very low
Health-care providers should ask about exposure to intimate partner violence when assessing conditions that may be caused or complicated by intimate partner violence, in order to improve diagnosis/identification and subsequent care
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This recommendation also appears in the following guidelines:
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines
Responding to intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women: WHO clinical and policy guidelines
WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience
WHO Guidelines for the health sector response to child maltreatment
Consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery and monitoring: recommendations for a public health approach
WHO recommendations on maternal health: guidelines approved by the WHO Guidelines Review Committee, second edition. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025
Consolidated guidelines on differentiated HIV testing services.