NOTES TO EDITORS
This study was funded by the Department for International Development, DfID (now the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office ) of the United Kingdom, through the UN Women–WHO Joint Programme on Strengthening Methodologies and Measurement and Building National Capacities for Violence against Women Data and by the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) in the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH) at the World Health Organization (WHO). It was conducted by researchers from the UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) in the Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; the School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montréal, Canada; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; and Medizinische Fakultät, Ludwig Maximilians Universität.
[1] The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development includes 17 goals. Goal 5.2 relates to the eradication of violence against women.
[2] Global and regional estimates of violence against women, WHO, 2013
[3] Quote direct from author and cannot be found in the text of the Article.
[4] “Lifetime” is defined as since the age of 15 for the purpose of these estimates.
[5] The Global Burden of Disease provides a tool to quantify health loss from hundreds of diseases, injuries, and risk factors, so that health systems can be improved, and disparities can be eliminated.
[6] For breakdowns by country, see Table S5 in the appendix.