This short communication provides insights into water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for homeless people through a scoping study conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It investigates homeless access to WASH through the lens of a rights-based approach. It demonstrates that homeless people's denial of their right to WASH reflects their marginal position in society and an unequal distribution of power a...

Homeless is the condition of the people who are unwilling to maintain regular and adequate housing in both developed and developing countries. Present work was attempted with the objectives to address socio-economic conditions of the homeless people and identify the problem with respect to the homelessness at Mekelle city. On basis of random sampling four sub-cities were selected where by using...

he challenge of providing health care services to homeless individuals is an issue every community faces, particularly since the needs for housing, food, job training and other basic necessities cross medical, behavioral and social-services lines. Tucson’s homeless population tops 4,000 people on any given day, representing one-fifth of Arizona’s homeless. These are single men and women, teenag...

BACKGROUND There are well over a million homeless people in Western Europe and North America, but reliable estimates of the prevalence of major mental disorders among this population are lacking. We undertook a systematic review of surveys of such disorders in homeless people. METHODS AND FINDINGS We searched for surveys of the prevalence of psychotic illness, major depression, alcohol and dr...

BACKGROUND Homeless people are at a higher risk of blood-born infectious diseases. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of HIV, HBV, HCV and related risk factors among male homeless people. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. METHODS This study was conducted in Khorramabad City, western Iran from January to June 2015. A pre-designed validated questionnaire was used to coll...