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Conference 9 invitation
(Liver and Environment)
Risks& Solutions
Tanta University, Faculty of Medicine and
the Egyptian Society of Liver&
Environment (ELSE) kindly invite
you
October 1st – 2nd /2014
Tanta Faculty of Medicine Hall of Conferences
Risks of HBV, HCV and HIV
infection
in street children
By
Prof Dr Abdel Raouf Abou El Azm
Tanta University
President of the Egyptian Society of liver and Environment
[email protected]
Street children???
No rights?
Number in Egypt?
Security Reports?
Press reports
- 600 000
- 1 Million
- 2 Millions
- 5 Millions
A report mentioned (must be killed as
dogs)
Street children problems
 Social
 Economic
 Health
 Security
Famous triad is applied
 Poverty
 Ignorance
 Disease
Living in Polluted
environment
Food, water and air:
Living in train stations - parking - cinemas
- Markets - buildings under construction and near large mosques
Food and water: parasites - diarrhea - a
common intestinal - dysentery - and food
poisoning
Air: TB
Street children
‫تغذية‬Hunger, pollution and malnutrition
Food
 Not
clean (dirty sources: gift- stolen or
from rubbish)
 Expired
 Little (not sufficient to satisfy hunger)
 83% of street children are malnourished
since birth and anemia
The risk of HBV, HCV and
HIV infection in the
community
Blood and blood products
 Instruments contaminated with blood or
secretions
 Sex
 Drug abuse
 From the mother to her children

Why street children are the
highest incidence of
infection?
More than 25- 30 % of street children
infected with viral hepatitis B, C
(Asmaa Mohamed)
1 - Blood and blood products
The exercise of physical violence
leading to the occurrence of injuries
2- Use tools possible contamination of
blood
Street children
3- Sex (mostly at the age of sexually
active)
- 58.4% of children had sex and 79%
of them had sex under threat
- Subjected to sexual abuse
- Rape
- prostitution
- Multiplicity of partnership
- Sex outside genitals
Street children
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4- Different kinds of drug
abuse
Street children
Street children
5- From the mother to her children
- Where an unwanted pregnancy
- Aborting the Ripper unhealthy
ways
Street children
What
is the
solution?