Thread by @IHME_UW

November 25 is International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. #ViolenceAgainstWomen is a human rights violation that remains largely unreported and manifests in physical, sexual and psychological forms #SpreadTheWord @UN_Women 🧵

TW: Abuse
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TW: Abuse

#ViolenceAgainstWomen can manifest insidiously:
👉 Intimate partner violence (psychological abuse, battering, marital rape, femicide)
👉 Sexual violence and harassment, stalking
👉 Forced marriage & child marriage
👉 Human trafficking
👉 Female genital mutilation

TW: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

🔸According to the 2019 #GBDstudy, IPV was the 19th leading risk factor for DALYs globally among women
🔸IPV was responsible for 11% of DALYs for #depressive disorders & 13.9% of DALYs due to #HIV in women
🔸Read more: healthdata.org/results/gbd_su…

#IPV impacts women 30-34 years old the most, evident in the #GBD2019 chart showing composition of attributable global #DALYs by YLLs (years of life lost) and #YLDs (years lived with disability)

#GBD2019 shows new cases per 100k of Interpersonal Violence (physical & sexual, terrorism) for females
🔸#US: 312 per 100k
🔸#Greenland: 486 per 100k
🔸#Russia: 424 per 100k
🔸#Libya: 442 per 100k
🔸#Australia: 424 per 100k
🔸#NewZealand: 404 per 100k
🔸#Honduras: 667 per 100k

Returning to school may prove particularly difficult for girls as researchers have estimated that ~20m girls won’t be able to return due to challenges from the pandemic like increased gender-based violence at home @ThinkGlobalHlth ⤵️
thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gender…

TW: Suicide

#ViolenceAgainstWomen increased during the pandemic. It quadrupled in #Jordan & domestic-violence police calls rose by 278% in #China. Evidence shows that suicide attempts among females associated w/experiences of violence @ThinkGlobalHlth⤵️
thinkglobalhealth.org/article/women-…

TW: Partner Violence

Partner and sexual violence accounts for more of the overall #DiseaseBurden than other commonly accepted risk factors like #smoking and #alcohol use @ThinkGlobalHlth ⤵️
thinkglobalhealth.org/article/violen…