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Browse and view tables, charts and graphs illustrating data on key populations, HIV prevalence and epidemiology, risk behaviors, gender-based violence, HIV knowledge, HIV expenditures, country responses, and treatment.
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In the background of the global public health and economic turmoil of the Covid-19 pandemic lurks another crisis: rising rates of violence against women (VAW). This paper provides a preliminary understanding of how the Covid-19 pandemic influences the prevalence of VAW within Asia and the Pacific.
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Violence against women and children are linked. These harms share risk factors, including a lack of responsive institutions and weak legal actions against violence. These forms of violence are also both fueled by the harmful social norms that condone violent discipline, promote toxic masculinity, prioritize family reputation and blame victims – all of which perpetuate gender inequality. Intimate partner violence (IPV) and VAC often co-occur within spaces and relationships of trust, such as in the home or in schools. Evidence indicates that children in households affected by IPV are more likely than other children to experience violent discipline by both male and female caregivers. Further, witnessing IPV may have long-term health and social consequences similar to the impact of direct abuse.
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Throughout the Asia and Pacific region, young people with diverse sexual orientation and gender identity or expression (SOGI/E) experience a high burden of poor sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including a disproportionate burden of HIV, intimate partner violence and psychological distress. This group also often experiences considerable barriers to accessing quality health services and are largely neglected by existing adolescent health, SRH, and HIV policies and strategies in the region. A multicomponent, multisectoral approach that fully engages young people with diverse SOGI/E in design, implementation and evaluation is required to address the complex determinants and multiple vulnerabilities that contribute to their poor health outcomes.
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Demand for data on the prevalence of violence against women (VAW) is increasing as countries monitor their progress towards meeting Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and other commitments such as the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). Yet, due to limited technical capacities, data on VAW prevalence are often unavailable, underused or collected in unethical, unreliable, and incomparable ways.
To address this void in ethical, reliable, and comparable VAW prevalence data across Asia and the Pacific, the kNOwVAWdata Initiative was launched in 2016 by UNFPA Asia and the Pacific Regional Office (APRO) with financial support from the Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). With University of Melbourne and Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS) as key partners, the kNOwVAWdata Initiative aimed to improve the availability and quality of data to inform more effective policy and programme responses to end VAW.
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Violence against women is recognized as a global public policy priority. Yet, despite growing awareness of the causes and consequences of violence against women, limited high-quality, actionable data on its prevalence exist. This gap is largely due to countries’ inadequate technical capacities to measure violence against women prevalence, meaning they rely on international experts, of whom there are not enough to meet the current and growing needs.
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My Body is My Own - Claiming the right to autonomy and self-determination.
We have the inherent right to choose what we do with our body, to ensure its protection and care, to pursue its expression. The quality of our lives depends on it. In fact, our lives themselves depend on it.
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A fascinating new volume Sexual Violence in Intimacy (eds. Torres & Yllö, 2021), including a chapter by kNOwVAWdata's Dr Henriette Jansen.
In her chapter, Dr Jansen looks at gender-based violence and marital rape in 11 Pacific Island countries, revealing unexpected and misunderstood patterns and drivers typically hidden behind regional, subregional and national averages.
Through an unprecedented analysis of violence against women prevalence data across the Pacific, Jansen illustrates how without qualitative insights and cross-cultural contextualisation, quantitative data alone never tell the full story.
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Big data analysis shows that Internet searches related to violence against women and help-seeking rose significantly during COVID-19 lockdowns in eight Asian countries, buttressing evidence of the particular dangers faced by women confined to homes or restricted in their movements. In response, government and private service providers should boost their online reach and engagement with survivors of violence.