INVESTIGATION OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN EASTERN DRC Bagabo Saleh (Panzi Hospital) and Dr. Jennifer Scott (HHI) review patient charts (Justin Ide, Harvard University News Office) Data were entered into an electronic spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel 2004; Version 11.5.5) and quality assurance checks were performed. Quantitative analysis was performed using STATA (Statistical Software: Release 10.0. College Station, TX: Stata Corporation). For the qualitative analysis, two investigators read and re-read the narratives to identify recurring themes. Quotations from individual woman were chosen throughout the five years and used to illustrate the identified themes. An individual woman was not quoted more than once. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Harvard School of Public Health and by the medical director at Panzi Hospital. For the purposes of this study, gang rape was defined as sexual violence committed by two or more assailants. Sexual slavery was defined as being held captive for the purpose of sexual violence for more than 24 hours. Rape Not Otherwise Specified (NOS) was taken to be sexual violence committed by a single assailant and not involving sexual slavery. It was also used to describe sexual violence in which the survivor simply stated that she was raped without providing further details. R ESUL TS QUANTITATIVE FINDINGS DEMOGRAPHICS The demographics of women presenting to Panzi Hospital between 2004 and 2008 requesting post-sexual violence care are provided in Table 1. Both the mean and median age was 35 years with an age range of 3.5 to 80 years. Six percent of survivors were less than 16 years of age and 10% were 65 years of age or older. The majority of women (53%) were married, 22% were widowed, and 9% reported that they had been abandoned by their spouses. The mean number of children per woman was 3.6 with a median of 3. The number of children per woman ranged from 9