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22 million dead from AIDS. |
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36 million people currently living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. |
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Close to 52 percent, or 1.3 million of deaths in 2002 were women. |
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Over 9 million women have died of HIV/AIDS-related illnesses since the epidemic began. |
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Women account for 57% of those infected (60% in Sub-Saharan Africa)
Young Women (15-24) are 3-4 times more likely to be infected than their male counterparts. |
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Transmission from men to women is 2 times more likely than women to men worldwide. |
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The incidents are highest where unwanted sex is forced on women. |
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An estimated 700,000 adults, 250,000 of them women, have become infected in South and South-East Asia in the course of the year 2000.
The region is estimated to have 5.8 million adults and children living with HIV or AIDS. |
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In India rape within marriage is not considered a crime.
A study in India showed that men who have extra-marital affairs are 6 times more likely to abuse their partners. |
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In South Africa one in five women can expect to be raped. |
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A woman raped in South Africa is said to run a 40% chance of being infected. |
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A World Bank analysis of 3 recent studies from industrialized and developing countries shows that 25-50 % of all women have suffered physical abuse by a present or former intimate partner. |
