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 1 st – 2 nd /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 else.eg.liver@gmail.com

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

ةيذغت

Hunger, 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

5

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?