Jasmine Garsd is a reporter for Across Women’s Lives. https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/contributor/jasmine-garsd/rss en Gender-Based Violence Health Thu, 10 Aug 2017 12:34:52 +0000 Andrea Crossan, Jasmine Garsd https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2017/08/10/bar-talk-helps-break-the-link-between-rape-and-hiv-in-south-africa https://www.newsdeeply.com/womenandgirls/articles/2017/08/10/bar-talk-helps-break-the-link-between-rape-and-hiv-in-south-africa South Africa is home to the biggest HIV epidemic in the world. It also has one of the world’s highest rates of rape. With the country’s legal system slow to recognize the issue of violence against women, local NGOs are working to break the link.