Women experiencing violence
- troyguzman1325
- Oct 17, 2016
- 2 min read
This week blog post is about women violence across the world and the effect it has on them. On 20 June 2013, WHO (World Health Organization), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the South African Medical Research Council published a systematic report and women violence shared to intimate and non partner sexual violence in addition to effects this abusive partners and non partners have. According to the report, studies indicate that 35% of intimate partner or non partner violence occurs to women worldwide. The most common type of this violence comes from the intimate partner violence section affecting women at a staggering 30% worldwide. These numbers alone should indicate to the rest of the world that we need to put an end to this. The impacts these abusive "partners" leave on these women are tremendous. According to the article, these relationships can lead to broken bones, pregnancy related complications, mental problems and impaired social functioning. These are just some of the key findings that the report describes, but with these findings alone it should spark a reform to end this relationship violence against women. As I stated earlier, that there are many more problems that affect women that are associated with an abusive relationship, here are the rest given by the report:
1.) Death and Injury - 38% murder by intimate partner and 42% physical and sexual violence by partner.
2.) Depression - major contributor to women's health problems
3.) Alcohol use problems - Twice as likely to drink alcohol if experiencing partner violence
4.) Sexually transmitted infections - 1.5 times more likely to acquired syphilis infection, gonorrhea, and chlamydia then women who do not experience violence. In other regions, women are 1.5 times more likely to acquire HIV
5.) Unwanted pregnancy and abortion - twice is likely to have an abortion or unwanted pregnancy if experiencing sexual violence
6.) Low birth weight babies - 16% greater chance of having a low weighted baby if experiencing violence.
Now surely with all these risks, the world will implement something to lower or fix this problem. According to the article, World Health Organization and other parties are putting physicians through training to recognize this problem and know how to handle it.
The report also documents the effects of violence on women’s physical, mental, sexual and reproductive health. This was based on systematic reviews looking at data on the association between the different forms of violence considered and specific health outcomes. Regional data
The report also represents data regionally according to World Health Organization regions. For intimate partner violence the worst affected regions were: Southeast Asia - 37.7% prevalence. Based on collected data from Bangladesh, Timor-Leste (East Timor), India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand. Eastern Mediterranean - 37% prevalence. Based on data from Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine.
Africa – 36.6% prevalence. Based on data from Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe.
For combined intimate partner and non partner sexual violence or both among all women of 15 years or older, prevalence rates were: Africa – 45.6%
Americas – 36.1% Eastern Mediterranean – 36.4%*
Europe – 27.2%
Southeast Asia – 40.2%
Western Pacific – 27.9%
High income countries – 32.7%
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