Global estimates of intimate partner violence suggest that 27% of ever-partnered women aged 15–49 years have experienced physical or sexual intimate partners.
violence in their lifetime, and 13% reported intimate partner violence over the past year.1 These experiences disproportionately affect women in low-income and middle-income countries compared with high-income countries, with past-year intimate partner violence prevalence at 32% in central Africa 24% in eastern sub-Saharan Africa, at 19% in South Asia, and at 4–6% in Europe and North America.1 However, Li and colleagues new research emphasizes that intimate partner violence reductions are occurring in low-income and middle-income countries and that women’s empowerment efforts could be a means through which these reductions are being achieved.