This was revealed in a report launched today by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) titled Return to Abuser.
The report includes data from more than 3,000 survivors of family and sexual violence that MSF treated in 2014-15 in its two projects in Tari, Hela Province and Port Moresby.
Data collected showed the vast majority of patients, 2 820 treated, were female and the most common form of violence was at the hands of partners.
More than a quarter of these women had been threatened with death.
