What We (Don't) Know About the Infectious Disease Burden Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness in the United States and Canada.

Mitra Kashani, Michael Bien, Emily Mosites, Ashley A Meehan

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Review in The Journal of infectious diseases, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Adapting and Scaling-up Peer Navigators to Targeted Populations of Street-Involved Youth in Kenya and Canada to Increase Engagement in HIV Prevention, Testing, and Treatment.AIDS and behavior · 2026
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Mitra KashaniNational Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0761-0501

Michael BienEmergency Response, National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Emily MositesOffice of the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Ashley A MeehanOffice of the Deputy Director for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Youth experiencing homelessness (YEH) and sexual and gender minority (SGM) YEH may be at increased risk for infectious diseases due to living arrangements, risk behaviors, and barriers to health care access that are dissimilar to those of housed youth and older adults experiencing homelessness. Here, we synthesize findings from 12 peer-reviewed articles published between 2012 and 2020 that enumerate YEH or SGM YEH infectious disease burden in locations across the United States or Canada. Pathogens presented in the reviewed studies were limited to sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and bloodborne infections (BBI). Only 3 studies enumerated infectious diseases among SGM YEH. There was a dearth of comparison data by housing status or SGM identity. We also introduce 3 publicly available surveillance datasets from the United States or Canada that quantify certain STIs, BBIs, and tuberculosis among YEH to support future analyses. Our review calls for more comprehensive YEH-centered research and surveillence to improve estimates of infectious diseases among this vulnerable population.

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Communicable DiseasesHomeless YouthIll-Housed PersonsAdolescentCanadaFemaleHumansMaleSexual and Gender MinoritiesSexually Transmitted DiseasesUnited StatesYoung Adultblood-borne pathogenscommunicable diseaseshomeless youthhousing instabilitysexual and gender minoritiessexually transmitted diseases

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PMID39028734

DOI10.1093/infdis/jiae363

PMCPMC11881550

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