Juvenal Balegamire

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Université Evangélique en Afrique

Background The aim of this study was to assess the impact of music therapy with songwriting on the mental health of vulnerable women and men in a conflict-ridden setting. We examine the impact on participants' mental health (specifically anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms), the extent to which improvement was sustained...

The reintegration of survivors and their children born because of war rapes is a major issue in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. This study analyzed survivors’ posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and the support received from their spouses, both in terms of their own well-being and that of their children. The PTSD form, DAS-16, Marita...

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of music therapy with songwriting on the mental health of vulnerable women and men in conflict-ridden settings. We examine the impact on participants' mental health (specifically anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms), the extent to which improvement was sustained for an exten...

Objective The goal was to understand how children born of rape in the Democratic Republic of Congo induce parental stress and how parents work together to care for these children. Background Abundant literature is devoted to children born of rape, but nothing is known about the stress undergone by their parents in the care process. Method Twenty‐...

Introduction Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) providers are central for many when seeking healthcare. Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are no exception. This paper seeks to better understand the use of TCAM by IDPs and its connection with the local integration of IDPs into the social fabric of the communities where they...

This open access edited collection provides a long-overdue examination of a practice that is continuously involved in managing, regulating, and subordinating individuals and communities. While it is well established that neoliberal systems of population management are designed to target the “constructed other,” there is considerably less research e...

This study was conducted in the eastern DR Congo to analyze the trauma of children born of rape (CBOR), and their behavior as it is perceived by their parents and community. Twenty-four families of women rape survivors and twenty-seven control families were used. The Trauma Symptoms Checklist for Children, Child Behavior Checklist, and Child and Yo...

Mental Health and Psychosocial Support are integral components of the multisectoral programs addressing wartime sexual violence. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, an integrated framework known as the one-stop centre model was implemented at Panzi Hospital for delivering medical, legal, psychosocial, and socioeconomic support services for wartime...

Background To assess whether Healing in Harmony (HiH), a form of music therapy, improved women's mental health following conflict-related trauma and sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Methods This study used a step-wedged design and included 167 women, who completed up to two pre-tests, a post-test, and up to two follow-up interv...

This paper sets out to explore sexual violence in armed conflict from the perspective of the combatants themselves. We interviewed combatants in South Kivu in eastern DRC about their experiences with sexual violence, what they think causes it, and how it might be mitigated. Although respondents in this study strongly believe that sexual violence is...

La République Démocratique du Congo a été désignée comme la « capitale mondiale du viol ». Ces agressions sexuelles détruisent généralement les familles car les femmes violées sont rejetées par la communauté. Un travail avec les familles s’avère nécessaire pour éviter les rechutes et amorcer un processus de résilience familiale. L’analyse des prati...

Objective to discuss the right to health, incorporation into the legal instruments and the deployment in practice in the National Health System in Mozambique. Method this is a documentary analysis of a qualitative nature, which after thorough and interpretative reading of the legal instruments and articles that deal with the right to health, acces...

RESUMO: Compreender as experiências e percepções sobre a gravidez na adolescência, sobretudo as relacionadas com a decisão de levar a gravidez ao termo, e os problemas sócio-económicos e de saúde vivenciados pelas adolescentes ao longo da gravidez. Trata-se duma pesquisa que parte das experiências e percepções das adolescentes sobre a gravidez, usa...

La description de la situation socio-scolaire de Bukavu depuis l'époque coloniale permet de comprendre pourquoi la population a mis sur pied des stratégies pour survivre à l'abandon progressif de ses responsabilités par l'Etat zaïrois, abandon aggravé par l'afflux massif au Kivu, à l'Est du Zaïre, de réfugiés du Rwanda et du Burundi et de Zaïrois e...