“…Living on the streets endangers young people in low-income countries such as Ethiopia. On the streets, homeless youth face numerous social and health problems including social marginalization, stigma, violence, poor health, hostility of the public, psychological trauma, victim criminalization, and sexual assault (Abebe, 2009;Ally and Paul, 2022;Bourdillon, 1994;Lockhart, 2008;Mathebula and Ross, 2013;Tyler and Melander, 2015). Evidence indicated that begging, petty theft, survival sex, and vendor can be used as means of a living by homeless youth (Abebe, 2008;Demewozu, 2005;Fantahun and Taa, 2022).…”