Background Accessibility of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services in many lower-
and-middle-income countries (LMICs) and humanitarian settings remains limited …

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is disproportionately affected by gender-based violence (GBV).
We systematically reviewed English language, peer-reviewed, quantitative evaluations of …

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development contains a bold, ambitious and clear call to
eliminate violence against children as expressed in Target 16.2,“end abuse, exploitation …

Background: Gender-based violence is a worldwide public health problem that is
increasingly occurring at younger ages. This investigation aims to analyze effective …

Importance Sexual violence is a public health problem that affects adolescents globally. To
our knowledge, no meta-analysis of prevention programs for adolescent sexual violence has …

Although declining in all other age groups, AIDS-related deaths among adolescents are
increasing. In the context of HIV, mental health problems are associated with negative health …

Objective Violence against children is a global public health concern. Researchers are
increasingly using self-report measures of physical, psychological, and sexual violence and …

School‐based interventions for preventing dating and relationship violence (DRV) and
gender‐based violence (GBV) are an important way of attempting to prevent and reduce the …

We examined the relationship between past-year violence victimization and viral load (VL)
failure among consecutively-sampled male and female adolescents and young adults, aged …

Background Child maltreatment has serious short and long‐term negative impacts for those
experiencing it. Child maltreatment occurring in institutional settings has recently received …