Trafficking in persons (TIP) is a human rights violation with serious public health
consequences. Unfortunately, assessing TIP and its health sequelae rigorously and reliably …

Background The US Department of State estimates that there are between 4 and 27 million
individuals worldwide in some form of modern slavery. Recent studies have demonstrated …

Human trafficking (HT) victims may present to emergency departments (ED) as patients, but
are infrequently identified. To address this issue, we developed and piloted a training …

(A) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in
which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or (B) the …

Canadian research on the domestic sex trafficking of adolescents and adults is in its infancy
with little exploration of social service providers' knowledge. This is an important gap as …

Background Previous work indicates that clinicians are seeing patients while they are being
trafficked and these patients often have negative healthcare experiences. Survivor …

It has been estimated that 27 million people worldwide are victims of human trafficking (US
Department of State, 2013). As many as 30% to 50% of trafficking victims have come into …

Social service providers are critical in supporting domestically sex trafficked persons.
However, little is known about how these providers identify sex trafficked persons. This study …

Health-care providers are in a unique position to identify and respond to the needs of
trafficking survivors, yet research has revealed a lack of training for work with this population …

ABSTRACT Background Awareness of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) is increasing and
healthcare providers (HCP) are seeing increased numbers of trafficked persons (TP) in …