Sexual violence prevalence and related pregnancy among girls and young women: A multicountry analysis

Nationally representative, cross-sectional household surveys — Violence Against Children and Youth Surveys — were conducted in Haiti, Malawi, Nigeria, Zambia, and Uganda among girls and young women aged 13-24 years.

Respondents were interviewed to assess prevalence of sexual violence, pregnancy related to the first or most recent experience of forced or pressured sex, relationship to perpetrator, mean age at sexual debut, mean age at pregnancy related to forced or pressured sex, and prevalence of forced/coerced sexual debut.

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