Global, regional, and national prevalence estimates of physical or sexual, or both, intimate partner violence against women in 2018

🤖 Plain-English Summary

BACKGROUND: Intimate partner violence against women is a global public health problem with many short-term and long-term effects on the physical and mental health of women and their children. There is an urgent need to invest in effective multisectoral interventions, strengthen the public health response to intimate partner violence, and ensure it is addressed in post-COVID-19 reconstruction efforts.

🔑 Key Findings

• The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) call for its elimination in target 5.2.
• To monitor governments' progress towards SDG target 5.2, this study aimed to provide global, regional, and country baseline estimates of physical or sexual, or both, violence against women by male intimate partners.
• METHODS: This study developed global, regional, and country estimates, based on data from the WHO Global Database on Prevalence of Violence Against Women.

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