Sexual and gender-based violence has surged in Haiti in recent years, with women and girls targeted by increasingly brutal practices, medical charity Doctors Without Borders warned Thursday. Nearly one-fifth of the survivors treated at the clinic had suffered multiple instances of sexual violence. MSF said that over 100 patients reported being assaulted by 10 or more perpetrators at a time. The report warned of persistent shortcomings in survivors' access to services amid lacking funding for protection services. MSF called for more funding and for the "unequivocal recognition of the widespread nature of sexual violence and its deliberate use by armed groups as a tool to control and subjugate women and girls".