Y-track Phase 6 is now live on Canada.ca
Y-Track (formerly E-SYS, Enhanced Surveillance of Canadian Street Youth) is an enhanced surveillance system that monitors rates of sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections (STBBIs) as well as the associated risk behaviours in the Canadian street youth population.
Information is collected through cross-sectional surveys conducted periodically at sentinel sites across Canada. Consenting participants are asked to complete an interviewer-administered questionnaire covering demographics; drug use and injecting behaviours; sexual behaviours; history of testing and diagnosis of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other STBBIs; self-reported physical and mental status; history of abuse; and health service knowledge, use, and barriers.
Survey participants are asked to provide consent for one or more of the following biological tests: HIV, hepatitis C (HCV), herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1), herpes simplex virus-2 (HSV-2), hepatitis B (HBV), chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea, and human T-lymphotropic virus (HTLV). Y-Track is the only non-school based, national level behavioural and biological surveillance system for this population in Canada.