Cristina Flores, a nurse in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has learned
how to help patients who are victims of gender-based violence.
In Honduras, a training is helping health workers understand
gender-based violence and provide support for women Nurse
Cristina Flores sees it every day: the fear in a woman’s eyes,
the bruises on her body, the hesitancy to say how it happened.
At the public health clinic in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where
Flores has worked for 15 years, she can recount numerous cases
where women have endured violence. One woman came to the clinic
pregnant, afraid to go home to her husband who beat her. He was
a member of a local gang, and she didn’t know what he might do
next. Another woman lied and said she had been hit by a bus to
cover up the injuries she sustained from her husband. When she
eventually reported the abuse to police at a nurse’s urging, her
husband was taken to jail, but later he escaped and stabbed her
to death. “Every day, we attend women who have signs of
violence, both physically an