1Paediatric Rheumatology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for children NHS Foundation Trust, Institute of Child Health, London; 2Paediatric Rheumatology, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, Manchester; 3Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Great Ormond Street Hospital, Institute of Child Health, London; 4National Amyloidosis Centre, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London; 5Immunolog...

A street child is someone under age 18 years who spends a considerable amount of time living or working on the street. Street children may have either run away from the home without their parents' permission, been forced onto the streets by their parents, or be orphans. Data are presented on 1147 street children aged 8-19 years interviewed between May 13 and June 9, 1997, in four market areas...

Street children worldwide do not have the information, skills, health services, and support they need to go through sexual development during adolescence. This study is undertaken to systematically investigate the fit between street children's sexual and reproductive health needs and the existing services. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 422 street children and four service provider...

There have always been orphaned, abandoned and working children in the world. Historically, however, adequate systems to deal with these children existed. In the more industrialized societies, they were placed as apprentices, into foster care or in institutions. In the more traditional societies, they were absorbed into the extended family network. Many of these same tactics are still used in i...

This article reports on strategies developed by female street vendors (vendedoras ambulantes) in Mexico City to ensure the care of their young children in the absence of a specific and operational government policy to fulfil this need. The information concerning child care and health was gathered by a survey of 426 street traders selected by multi-stage random cluster sampling in four of the ad...

During the past ten years, Tanzanian cities have undergone rapid changes that have transformed the urban environment as well as the lives of millions of people who live in this setting. The impact of these changes is affecting almost everybody, particularly the urban poor. One of the growing social problems associated with these changes is the tremendous increase in unsupervised children either...