Risk Factors for Hepatitis C Virus Infection Among Street Youths

Background: The relative contributions to risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection resulting from unsafe sexual behaviours and exposures to blood (e.g., tattooing, body piercing and injection drug use) among youths at risk are not well known. We interviewed street youths about risk factors for HCV infection and documented their HCV antibody status.

Publication Date: 
2001
Pages: 
557-560
Volume: 
165
Issue: 
5
Journal Name: 
Canadian Medical Association Journal