Toronto street youth and HIV/AIDS: Prevalence, demographics, and risks

Journal of Adolescent Health

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 358-366

  Dematteo, Dale ^a   Major, Carol ^b   Block, Barbara ^a   Coates, Randall ^c   Fearon, Margaret ^b   Goldberg, Eudice ^a   King, Susan M ^a   Millson, Margaret ^c   O'Shaughnessy, Michael ^d   Read, Stanley E ^a  

^a Hospital for Sick   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent sexuality; HIV AIDS; Risk behaviors; Risk factors; Seroprevalence; STD; Street youth; Substance use

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH HAZARD; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROPREVALENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; ONTARIO; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SALIVA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032720434     PISSN: 1054139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-139X(99)00059-2     Document Type: Article

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