The street foods play an important socioeconomic role in meeting food and nutritional requirements of city consumers at affordable prices to the lower and middle income people. The number of food poisoning notifications rose steadily worldwide since the inception of E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in the 1980s to date. This may be partly attributed to improved surveillance, increased global trade and ...

IN THE years 1801 and 1802 an alarming epidemic fever spread in Leeds and the neighbourhood. The contagion extended so rapidly and proved so fatal that some hundreds were affected at the same time.' Two doctors (one was Mr. Rusby) and several nurses fell victims to the disease. There was clearly need for a fever hospital in the town and Dr. Thorp* stated in 1831 that the matter had first been p...

sectional anonymous study to estimate HIV prevalence and associated risk factors among street youth in Montréal. A total of 919 participants aged 13 to 25 years were recruited with the collaboration of 20 street youth agencies. An HIV prevalence rate of 1.85% (95% CI 1.12-2.89) was found, which was 3.7 times higher than the rate estimated for the general Montréal population. Injection drug use ...

the concepts of democracy have been around for centuries in different fields of human sciences. however, in most of these fields the idealistic and far-fetched features attributed to democracy have not been manipulated yet. it should be mentioned that there have been only a few serious attempts to find proper go-between elements, which could make such a concept as comprehensible and tangible as...

There are many ways that women support their use of crack cocaine, including sex-for-crack bartering and other forms of prostitution. Empirical studies conducted in the mid-1970s and in the mid-1980s in New York City, and in Chicago in the late 1980s to early 1990s are compared, analyzing similarities and differences between the contemporary crack-prostitution scene and previous prostitution sc...

BACKGROUND Reliable data on HIV infection among Russian street youth are unavailable. The purpose of this study was to assess HIV seroprevalence among street youth in St Petersburg and to describe social, sexual, and behavioral characteristics associated with HIV infection. METHODS A cross-sectional assessment conducted during January-May 2006 included city-wide mapping of 41 street youth loc...

Prostitution is most commonly defined as the exchange of sexual services for some form of payment (usually money or drugs). This can take place on the street or in massage parlours or saunas, through escort agencies or at private addresses. It is difficult to be precise about the scale and prevalence of prostitution in the UK, however we know that it exists in most towns and cities, sometimes o...

THE PROBLEM: Santa Ana was plagued by the problem of street cruising. On Sunday evenings, up to 1,000 carloads of cruisers descended on a major thoroughfare to gather and socialize. The problem was exacerbated by use of drugs and alcohol and violent conflicts between rival street gangs. This problem resulted in serious adverse impact on neighborhoods and the police department's ability to deliv...

BACKGROUND Employing innovative mapping and spatial analyses of individual and neighbourhood environment data, we examined the social, physical and structural features of overlapping street-based sex work and drug scenes and explored the utility of a 'spatial isolation index' in explaining exchanging sex for drugs and exchanging sex while high. METHODS Analyses drew on baseline interview and ...

Confidential scientific analysis of street drugs grew pied the middle ground in popularity among drugs submitout of the treatment, education and prevention efforts of ted for analysis. However, for this article, MDA and the counterculture movement in the 1960's and became MDMA were separated, leaving a total of 72 alleged even more crucial with the proliferation of clandestine MDMA samples for ...