Risky Sexual Behavior Among Street Children, Adolescents, and Young People Living on the street in southern Brazil.
Although adolescents living on the street tend to have unprotected sex with many partners and substance abuse, little is known about this reality in Brazil. To estimate the prevalence and factors associated with risky sexual behavior among children and adolescents living on the street in Porto Alegr...
| Published in: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 46; no. 6; pp. 1188 - 1197 |
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Springer Nature
Dec2021
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