Women experiencing intimate partner violence three times more likely to contract HIV

Published: 5 January 2023

Women who experience recent intimate partner violence (IPV) are three times more likely to contract HIV, according to a new study led by McGill University researchers. In regions like Sub-Saharan...

One in four women experience domestic violence before age 50

Published: 24 March 2022

Over one in four women (or 27 per cent) experience intimate partner violence before the age of 50, according to a worldwide analysis led by researchers from McGill University and the World Health...

Domestic violence deters contraception

Published: 31 March 2015

Domestic violence takes many forms. The control of a woman’s reproductive choices by her partner is one of them. A major study published in PLOS One, led by McGill PhD student Lauren Maxwell,...

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