Medical Xpress December 9, 2025
Sexual violence against children and intimate partner violence against women are two of the most devastating yet persistently underrecognized global health challenges and rank among the top risks for mortality and morbidity worldwide, according to research published in The Lancet.
For the first time, researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine comprehensively mapped the broad spectrum of health outcomes linked to sexual violence against children (SVAC) and intimate partner violence (IPV) among females in 204 countries and territories.
The new analysis is part of the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2023 study that provides refined prevalence estimates and reveals an attributable disease burden far greater than previously understood.
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