Characteristics of street children in Cameroon: A cross-sectional study
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Street children have been identified by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as children in difficult circumstances and their rights and welfare remains a growing concern to both national and international bodies.1 The existing estimates by UNICEF suggested that there are tens of millions of street-based children, and this number continues to rise in lowand middle-income countries because of increased urbanisation, health challenges of parents, the HIV epidemic, migration and global population growth.1
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