Users can access data related to international women’s health as well as data on population and families, education, work, power and decision making, violence against women, poverty, and environment. Background World’s Women Reports are prepared by the Statistics Division of the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA). Reports are produced in five year intervals and began in 1990. A major theme of the reports is comparing women’s situation globally to that of men in a variety of fields. Health data is available related to life expectancy, cause of death, chronic disease, HIV/AIDS, prenatal care, maternal morbidity, reproductive health, contraceptive use, induced abortion, mortality of children under 5, and immunization. User functionality Users can download full text or specific chapter versions of the reports in color and black and white. A limited number of graphs are available for download directly from the website. Topics include obesity and underweight children. Data Notes The report and data tables are available for download in PDF format. The next report is scheduled to be released in 2015. The most recent report was released in 2010.

ABSTRACT CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Sexual violence is increasingly frequent worldwide. The aim here was to evaluate the sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of women who requested legal abortion, at a public healthcare service, after sufering sexual violence. DESIGN AND SETTING: Retrospective descriptive study on 131 women who underwent legal abortion at the University of Campinas between 1994 and 2014, consequent to sexual violence. METHODS: The sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of women who were victims of sexual violence were evaluated from their medical records. The tests used to evaluate possible associations were the chi-square and/or Fisher’s exact test. RESULTS: The women’s mean age was 23 ± 9.2 years; 77.9% were white and 71.8% were single; 32.8% were students and 58.6% had employment outside of their homes. The majority reported that they did not know the aggressor (62.3%), but among the adolescents, 58% of the aggressors were known. The majority asked for abortion up to the 12th weeks of gestation (63.4%). Only 2.3% presented curettage complications. The psychological situation most frequently encountered was determined, in 34.4% of the cases before the abortion; and good in 32.8% after the abortion. CONCLUSIONS: There was greater occurrence of sexual violence among students and women who worked outside. Among the students, most of these were adolescents and had no previous sexual life. The teenagers were raped by a known aggressor.

This interview is part of the Women, Risk and Aids Project (1989-90) archive which was created as part of the Reanimating Data Project (2018-20).Original transcript of an interview with Paula, 20, who works in Manchester. Interviewee works as a sound engineer and loves her job. Has bought a house with support from her mum and has a friend who is her lodger. Has good family relationships. Had ‘very little’ sex education at her comprehensive school in biology lessons and religious education. Learnt about contraception through conversations with girlfriends and from a book her mum gave her aged 13/14. First learnt about AIDS from seeing Rock Hudson on television and then more from television programmes and leaflets posted through the door. No education about AIDS through work or the union. HIV tests are not offered at work but she thinks that you could get support to have one through approaching the nurse at work. Worries about AIDS but doesn’t feel like she is at risk. Doesn’t see herself as someone who tasks lots of risks with sex, or in other areas of her life. In a two year relationship with someone. Likes to think she would ask someone to use a condom if she had sex with someone else but is unsure. Thinks the idea of condoms is ‘awful’ and wouldn’t carry them as she wouldn’t want to signal that she was going out with the intention of having sex. Doesn’t think she would ask someone to take an HIV test before having sex and would be insulted if someone asked her to do this. Discusses the difficulty of assessing whether a potential partner has HIV or not and that you can’t always trust what a partner tells you. Had sex with 3 or 4 people when she was younger and was disappointed by it. Talked about pleasure with friends but didn’t experience it until she met her current partner who she feels confident with and can talk about sex. Her and her partner both see other people but only have sex with each other. Interviewee takes the pill and is happy with it. Wouldn’t have an abortion if she got pregnant. Discusses some AIDS awareness campaigns and her responses to them and her views on being sexually ‘permissive’, which she doesn’t agree with morally, particularly for women.

Abstract Background Abortion is a relevant issue for public health, due to is significance among the causes of maternal and mortality. Objective to describe the sociodemographic and reproductive profile, as well as the assistance provided and the costs of the hospitalization of women in abortion in the hospitals linked in the SUS network in Fortaleza, Ceará. Methods this is a cross-sectional, descriptive study by means of interviews, medical records and reports of the Authorization of Hospitalizations. Results among the 119 women interviewed, 65% were under 30 years of age, 78.2% were non-white and 54% had low income; the prevalence of women who sought more than one hospital for care was 47% and 72.3% of them sought health care within five days; concentration of 98.3% were submitted to a surgical procedure curettage for abortion termination. Conclusion it was noticed the existence of fragile points in the attention to abortion and the need to discuss abortion thematic in public health policies.

This interview is part of the Women, Risk and Aids Project (1989-90) archive which was created as part of the Reanimating Data Project (2018-20).Anonymised transcript of an interview with Claire, 20, who has a daughter and was previously training as a hairdresser. She had been using the pill, but still managed to get pregnant. She had considered an abortion, but thought she would regret it in the future. Claire has had three romantic relationships, but only one has been sexual, from the age of 16. Her current partner, her daughter's father, is currently in prison for robbery, and she is unsure whether she would like the relationship to continue when he returns, but seems fairly optimistic about it. The sex education she received at her all girls' school was taught through biology lessons, mainly in the context of plants and animals. They had a male teacher, who wasn't taken very seriously. Contraception and reproduction was covered in child studies, but there was nothing about AIDS, as it wasn't a mainstream worry at the time. Her parents are too embarrassed to discuss sex and relationships, but she learnt a lot through her friends, and feels she was well-informed enough at the time of her first sexual debut. She went to her male doctor to arrange using the pill, but he did not offer any further advice on sexual relationships. Claire had heard about AIDS through the news, but feels it is not relevant to her as she only has one sexual partner. She considers those at risk to be people who are 'promiscuous' and bisexuals. She understands safe-sex in relation AIDS as using condoms and not sleeping around, and would make future partners be tested for AIDS before engaging in unprotected sexual activity.

This interview is part of the Women, Risk and Aids Project (1989-90) archive which was created as part of the Reanimating Data Project (2018-20).Original transcript of interview with Angela 22, who is studying Drama at university. She is from an artistic family who are very open about sex. She went to an all girls, private secondary school, which pushed science subjects but otherwise had no other feminist ideology. There was very limited sex education at this school, which invited a prominent anti-abortion campaigner to deliver its sex education. Angela has a very high awareness of AIDS which comes largely from being part of a play about AIDS and working with gay men who were directly affected by AIDS. Angela s very concerned about the risks of HIV and AIDS and this has affected her decision making around sex. Angela has had a few short term relationships, which did not involve penetrative sex and is currently in a relationship with someone where she does have penetrative sex,although she would quite like this not to be the case. She prefers having relationships with younger, les sexually experienced men as they feel 'safer'. Her first experience of intercourse was rape, by a friend from a drama course. This was a difficult experience that she is still processing. Angela describes her experiences of taking part in drama courses as a teenager and being part of the drama scene in her early twenties and meeting older men who were 'really explicit' in their sexual pursuit and exploitation of younger women. Angela has mixed feelings about the drama world, which she has found to be liberating but difficult to handle. She has liberal, feminist values around her own sexuality, a lot of this influenced by the drama scene, but has lots of contradictions between her values and her practices. Is using the diaphragm as main contraceptive method, as she didn't want to use the pill. She is aware that she will still need to use condoms for higher level of protection, and is worried she is being 'over-protective'. She thinks they have a strong level of communication between them, which she thinks is an important factor in having safe sex and using contraception effectively. She thinks there is a lot of societal pressure to be in a steady relationship, especially as a woman, but doesn't see the appeal when she thinks about her friend's romantic relationship.