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HIV moves in on homeless youth.
170 C R E D IT : M A L C O L M L IN T O N ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA, AND ODESSA, UKRAINE—Russians frequently boast that St. Petersburg is the most beautiful city in the country, and Ukrainians say the same about Odessa. Both feature well-preserved architecture in Italian and French styles that date back to the 18th century, stunning monuments, and lots of water, be it the canals that wind through ...
متن کاملUsing social networks to raise HIV awareness among homeless youth
Many homeless shelters conduct interventions to raise awareness about HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) among homeless youth. Due to human and financial resource shortages, these shelters need to choose intervention attendees strategically, in order to maximize awareness through the homeless youth social network. In this work, we propose HEALER (hierarchical ensembling based agent which plans ...
متن کاملForming Teams of Homeless Youth To Combat HIV Spread
Homeless youth are prone to HIV due to their engagement in high risk behavior. Many agencies conduct interventions to educate/train a select group of homeless youth about HIV prevention practices. These trained youth form a team whose goal is to maximize spread of HIV based information in their social network. This team of humans usually relies on word-of-mouth information spread to maximize th...
متن کاملPSINET: Assisting HIV Prevention Amongst Homeless Youth by Planning Ahead
Homeless youth are prone to Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) due to their engagement in high risk behavior such as unprotected sex, sex under influence of drugs, etc. Many non-profit agencies conduct interventions to educate and train a select group of homeless youth about HIV prevention and treatment practices and rely on word-of-mouth spread of information through their social network. Prev...
متن کاملForgotten Youth: Homeless LGBT Youth of Color and the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act
Over the years, the rate of youth homelessness in America has steadily risen, prompting the creation and subsequent revision of corrective policies. One such policy is the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act of 1974. The Act is not a cure-all for homelessness, but it does provide services and programs specifically designed to aid homeless youth. It has had some success, but not all homeless youth be...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.329.5988.170