All: Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences in sub-Saharan Africa: A multicountry analysis of the Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys (VACS)

The association between youth violence and mental health outcomes in Colombia: A cross sectional analysis

This study explored sex-stratified relationships between violence and mental health/substance use among Colombian youth.

Adverse childhood experiences, mental distress, self-harm and suicidality, and cumulative HIV risk by sex in Lesotho

This study uses data from the 2018 Lesotho VACS to explore associations between mental distress, self-harm or suicidality, and HIV risk and individual and cumulative ACEs among youth aged 13–24 in Lesotho.

Adverse childhood experiences, HIV and sexual risk behaviors in five sub-Saharan countries

This study uses VACS data from five sub-Saharan countries to identify associations between exposures to ACEs and sexual risk behaviors and HIV service utilization among young people.

Patterns of adverse childhood experiences and their associations with mental distress, substance use and sexual risk behaviors in Sub-Saharan Africa

Using VACS data, this study assesses how multiple ACEs co-occur and how dominant patterns of co-occurrence are associated with mental distress, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors among young women and men in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Parenting-related positive childhood experiences, adverse childhood experiences, and mental health in four sub-Saharan African countries

Using VACS data, this study assesses the associations between ACEs and negative health outcomes and risk-taking behaviors among young adults and evaluates whether — and which — Positive Childhood Experiences moderate the association between ACEs and these outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa.

Approaches for measuring cumulative childhood adversity: A study of youth from 5 sub-Saharan African countries

Using VACS data from Lesotho, Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya, Namibia, and Mozambique, this study assesses approaches to quantifying cumulative childhood adversity (CCA) resulting from four types of Adverse Childhood Experiences.

Service-seeking behaviors among male victims of violence in five African countries: The effects of positive and adverse childhood experiences

Using VACS data, this study analyzes the association between positive and adverse childhood experiences (PCEs and ACEs), and seeking post-violence services among males in five countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

Adverse childhood experiences and associations with mental health, substance use, and violence perpetration among young adults in sub-Saharan Africa

Using VACS data this study estimates the prevalence of six ACE exposures and assesses their association with mental health outcomes, substance use, and violence perpetration among young adults in sub-Saharan Africa.

Parental absence as an adverse childhood experience among young adults in sub-Saharan Africa

Using VACS data, this study assesses whether parental absence in childhood is associated with poor mental health and substance use in young adulthood among youth in sub-Saharan Africa.

Special issue: Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Read this special journal issue on the measurement of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in low-and middle-income countries by the CDC in collaboration with the Journal of Child Abuse and Neglect.

Cross-time comparison of adverse childhood experience patterns among Kenyan youth: Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys, 2010 and 2019

Mozambique Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report 2022 (data collection 2019)

Explore the data in Mozambique's Violence Against Children and Youth Survey (VACS) report.