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         Internet Reports
 
  FULL-TEXT DOCUMENT
Children's Rights: Police Abuse and Arbitrary Detention of Street Children
Human Rights Watch World Report 2000
Report
 
         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Preventing and controlling emerging and reemerging transmissible diseases in the homeless.
Badiaga S, Raoult D, Brouqui P.
Emerg Infect Dis  2008 Sept
 Paper
Middle East
 
Iran


           Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Seroprevalence of viral hepatitis, HIV and syphilis among homeless adults living in Tehran
 S.M. Hosseini Moghaddam, P. Vahdani, R. Moheb Dezfuli, et al
 (XVI International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

Innovative approach of a center for war-related homeless children in Shiraz, Iran
M. Begheri, MD,  Z Sarraf
 (134 APHA)
 Abstract
 
Israel

Older Persons

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
  Characterizing the elderly homeless: a 10-year study in Israel.
Barak Y, Cohen A.
Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2003 Oct;37(2):147-55.
Abstract
 

Juveniles

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
  Shelters for houseless youth: a follow-up evaluation.
Dekel R, Peled E, Spiro SE.   
J Adolesc 2003 Apr;26(2):201-12
 Abstract
 
Turkey
 
Juveniles

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
 
Homeless deaths in Istanbul, Turkey.
Büyük Y, Uzün I, Eke M, Ceti˙n G.  
J Forensic Leg Med. 2008 Jul;15(5):318-321.
 Abstract

Electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings in street children known to be
substance abusers.
Olgar S, Dindar A, Ertugrul T, et al 
Cardiol Young. 2007 Dec 20;:1-4
 Abstract
Russia/Newly Independent States
 
Latvia

Juveniles

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Street Children in Kurzeme District of Riga City, their Patterns of Sexual Behavior
and Substance Abuse
J Caunitis, G Gange, I Supule, A Vavere
 (!5IAC)
 Abstract
 
Lithuania


Juveniles

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
  Sexual behaviour of street children in Vilnius, Lithuania
A G Davidaviciene
 (!5IAC)
 Abstract
 
Russia

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
  Examination of personality and emotional-volitional disorders in the homeless with
tuberculosis
[No authors listed]
Probl Tuberk Bolezn Legk. 2007;(11):6-10.
 Abstract
 
HIV seroprevalence in street youth, St Petersburg, Russia.
Kissin DM, Zapata L, Yorick R, et al  
AIDS. 2007 Nov 12;21(17):2333-40.
 Abstract

          Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters
 
 
Innovations in rendering services to street children and adolescents
in St. Petersburg, Russia
Kapustina A
 (XVI International AIDS Conference)
 Abstract

High rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and related risky behavior in the
homeless population in Moscow, Russia - potential impact for HIV transmission
A  Shakarishvili, L Dubovskaya, Y Khromova, et al
 (15IAC)
 Abstract
 
Ukraine

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  
 
  The health and well-being of neglected, abused and exploited children: The Kyiv Street
Children Project.
Kerfoot M, Koshyl V, Roganov O, et al
Child Abuse Negl. 2007 Jan 4;
Abstract
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