One of the consequences of shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Assistance (USAID) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been the cancellation of a contract that supplied around 100,000 post-rape kits to women victims of sexual violence. These emergency kits included medication to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
“This kit is truly important to reassure the woman who has been really traumatized that she won’t get AIDS, that she won’t have an unwanted pregnancy, and that she won’t contract venereal diseases,” said Amadou Bocoum, CARE country director in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.