Appendix A (search terms and databases): Population-specific HIV/AIDS status report: HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted and blood borne infections among youth in Canada

Appendix A – Search terms and databases searched

1) Search Terms

Literature was identified through a systematic search of electronic databases and grey literature. All search strings involved a combination of one term from each column.

Note that words with an asterisk (*) are search terms with several possible endings.

A	B	C
Youth* Youth* at-risk At-risk youth* Vulnerable youth* Teenager* Juvenile Adolescent* Adolescence Jeune* Garçon* Fille* Girl* Boy* Teen* Pre-teen* Jeune* adulte* Young* Young adult* Young adulthood Young people Street youth* Female street youth* Male street youth* Street involved youth* Runaway youth* Runaway young* Runaway adolescent* Young womn Young mn Female youth* Male youth* Aboriginal youth* First Nations youth* Young Aboriginal Two-Spirit Youth* HIV positive youth* Youth PHA Young PHA High school student* College student* Student* Homeless youth* Homeless adolescent* Young urban Marginalized youth* Youth* who use injection drugs Youth injection drugs user* Young injection drug user* IDU youth* Young IDU Sexual minority youth* Gay, lesbian, bisexual youth* Young gay mn Young lesbian womn Ethno-cultural youth* African-Canadian youth* Caribbean-Canadian youth* Black youth* Young Black womn Asian-Canadian youth Sex worker* youth Rural adolescent* Rural youth* Incarcerated youth* Juvenile detention Youth* in custody Youth* sexual risk behaviours Juvenile Delinquency Juvenile rehabilitation center Youth offender*	Alberta British Columbia Calgary Canad* Colombie-Britannique Edmonton Halifax Haligonian Île-du-Prince-Edouard Labrador Manitoba Montreal New Brunswick Newfoundland NFLD Northwest Territor* Nouveau-Brunswick Nouvelle Écosse Nova Scotia Nunavut NWT Ontario Ottawa PEI Prince Edward Island Quebec Quebec city Regina Saskatchewan Saskatoon Terre-Neuve Territoires du Nord Ouest Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg Yukon	Acquired immunodeficiency AIDS AIDS serodiagnosis APHA APHAs HIV HIV+ HIV-1 HIV infection* HIV positive HIV seropositivity HIV seroprevalence Human immune deficiency Human immunodeficiency Immunodeficience/y D’immunodeficience (acquise; acquise humaine) L’immunodeficience Infection* Infectious disease* Prevalence HIV-risk HIV antibodies HIV incidence HIV testing HIV transmission Sida Syndrome VIH VIH+ VIH positi* Virus Virus transmission Virus acquisition Virus infection Blood borne pathogens Communicable diseases Epidemiology in adolescence Communicable diseases/ep (epidemiology) HIV-and-HCV-coinfection Hepatitis Hepatitis C Hepatitis C virus C virus infection HCV

2) Databases searched

The following databases were searched for English- and French-language articles from 2003 to 2010.

MEDLINE
PreMEDLINE
Embase
CINAHL
PsycInfo
Global health
SocAbs
Eric

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Appendix A (search terms and databases): Population-specific HIV/AIDS status report: HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted and blood borne infections among youth in Canada

Appendix A – Search terms and databases searched

1) Search Terms

2) Databases searched

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