Understanding non-partner sexual violence perpetration in young Tanzanian men: a cross-sectional study
The widespread nature of sexual harassment and rape perpetration among young men in our study and the associated risk factors, which are all tied to notions of masculinity encouraging domination, promiscuity, and risky health behaviours, call for harmful gender norms to be addressed to reduce the incidence of NPSV.
Authors
- Saidi Kapiga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1753-4060)
- Donati Malibwa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4586-1472)
- Neema Mosha (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5943-9494)
- Andrew Gibbs (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2812-5377)
- Rebecca Brambilla (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7244-9398)
- Heidi Stöckl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0907-8483)
- Gerry Mshana (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8753-7561)
Institutions
- South African Medical Research Council (ZA)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
- Zimmer Biomet (Germany) (DE)
- Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit (TZ)
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Public Health
- Published
- 2025-05-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23248-4
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 7.73
Funders
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- H2020 European Research Council