Survival sex work involvement among street-involved youth who use drugs in a Canadian setting
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Survival sex work involvement among street-involved youth who use drugs in a Canadian setting.
BACKGROUND Drug users engaged in survival sex work are at heightened risk for drug- and sexual-related harms. We examined factors associated with survival sex work among street-involved youth in Vancouver, Canada. METHODS From September 2005 to November 2007, baseline data were collected for the At-Risk Youth Study (ARYS), a prospective cohort of street-recruited youth aged 14-26 who use illi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1741-3842,1741-3850
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdp126