Into The physical or sexual violence affects more ‘than a third of women in the world (35%) and domestic violence inflicted by the partner and’ the most ‘common (30%), reported today in Geneva the World of Health ‘Organization (WHO). ” The results of this study send a strong message: violence against women and ‘a global public health problem of epidemic proportions,” said Margaret Chan, Director-General of WHO. The relationship and ‘the first systematic study”” ever conducted with global data on the prevalence of violence against women by their partners or sexual violence inflicted by others” and reveals a shocking statistic,” said Flavia Bustreo, dep uty director-general for family health, women’s and children’s general manager.
” All age brackets’ are affected,” although with a lower prevalence, as well the young or women of childbearing ‘more’ advanced are not spared from this violence” that also affects all regions and social classes,” he said at a press conference Bustreo.
The report estimates the rate prevalence in Africa ‘by 45.6%, 36.1% in the Americas, the Eastern Mediterranean, 36.4% in Europe (including Russia and Asia Centrela) of 27.2%, in the south-east East Asia 40.2%, 27.9% in the Western Pacific. In high-income countries and ’32.7%.
The study also shows that, globally, 38% of the women were killed by their intimate partners and that 42% of women who suffered physical or sexual violence suffered wounds. For women victims of violence by their partner, the probability ‘of depression and’ almost twice as ‘high compared to those who have not suffered, so’ as to have problems with alcohol consumption. They climb the risks contracting sexually transmissible diseases, abortion and having a baby with a low birth weight.
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