WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence
against Women Initial results on prevalence, health outcomes and
women's responses This report presents initial results based on
interviews with 24 000 women by carefully trained interviewers.
The study was implemented by WHO, in collaboration with the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), PATH,
USA, research institutions and women's organizations in the
participating countries. This report covers 15 sites and 10
countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, Ethiopia, Japan, Peru, Namibia,
Samoa, Serbia and Montenegro, Thailand and the United Republic
of Tanzania. Report findings document the prevalence of intimate
partner violence and its association with women's physical,
mental, sexual and reproductive health. Data is included on non-
partner violence, sexual abuse during childhood and forced first
sexual experience. Information is also provided on women’s
responses: Whom do women turn to and whom do they tell about the
violence in their liv