All: About the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys
Gender norms and health: Insights from global survey data
This article explores how the use of innovative approaches to analyzing proxies for gender norms, generated evidence that gender norms impact the health of women and men across life stages, health sectors, and world regions.
Childhood violence is associated with forced sexual initiation among girls and young women in Malawi: A cross-sectional survey
This purpose of this study is to describe associations between childhood violence and forced sexual initiation in young Malawian females.
Prevalence of violence victimization and perpetration among persons aged 13–24 years: Four sub-Saharan African countries, 2013–2015
From 2013 to 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collaborated with Together for Girls and the governments of Malawi, Nigeria, Uganda, and Zambia to plan and implement Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys.
Cycle of violence among young Kenyan women: The link between childhood violence and adult physical intimate partner violence in a population-based survey
This study explores the association between emotional, physical, and sexual violence against children with physical intimate partner violence in young adulthood.
Adverse childhood experiences and HIV sexual risk-taking behaviors among young adults in Malawi
This analysis explores the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and HIV sexual risk-taking behaviors among young adults in Malawi.
Critical elements of interviewer training for engaging children and adolescents in global violence research: Best practices and lessons learned from the Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS)
This white paper seeks to fill a gap in the field by describing strategies for interviewer recruitment and training for population-based studies on violence with child research participants.
Zanzibar: National Plan of Action to end violence against women and children 2017-2022
This National Plan of Action provides a five-year national framework for all stakeholders committed to preventing and responding to violence against women and children in Zanzibar.
What explains childhood violence? Micro correlates from Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys
This paper uses data on childhood violence for 10,042 individuals from Cambodia, Kenya, Swaziland, Tanzania.
Sexual violence against female and male children in the United Republic of Tanzania
This article explores the prevalence, circumstances, and health outcomes associated with childhood sexual violence.
Violent experiences in childhood are associated with men’s perpetration of intimate partner violence as a young adult: A multistage cluster survey in Malawi
This study examines the association between exposures to violence in childhood, including exposure to multiple forms of violence, with young men's perpetration of intimate partner violence.
Childhood sexual violence against boys: A Study in three countries
This study sought to produce the first internationally comparable estimates of the magnitude, characteristics, risk factors, and consequences of sexual violence against boys in three countries.
Violence Against Children Surveys (VACS): towards a global surveillance system
This research briefing describes the contribution VACS have made to the global understanding of violence against children.