The recommendations are aimed at health-care providers because they are in a unique position to address the health and psychosocial needs of women who have experienced violence. They also seek to make health-care providers and policy-makers in charge of planning, funding and implementing health services and professional training more aware of violence against women, to encourage an evidence-informed health-sector response, and improve capacity building of health-care providers and other members of multidisciplinary teams. They should also prove useful to those responsible for developing training curricula in medicine, nursing and public health