[Comment] Mapping the unseen: global prevalence of childhood sexual violence

Sexual violence against children (SVAC) is a global public health problem that takes on a tremendous toll on survivors and society. Survivors face increased risk for severe mental (eg, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder), physical (eg, cardiovascular disease and hypertension), and reproductive (eg, cervical cancer) health problems; for health risk behaviours (eg, substance misuse and suicide attempts); and for re-victimisation.1 Survivors’ parents are at risk of secondary traumatic stress2 and survivors’ offspring are at increased risk of sexual victimisation.