As homeless children often suffer from poor health, lack of sleep, violence which mostly results in a variety of health problems. These children are afflicted with physical as well as mental problems, mostly divided into different categories; nutritional deficiencies, sexual health, victimization but the most common is depression and nutritional deficiencies, as there is a lack of access to clean water and food that is a major reason of health problems.Other include respiratory, skin ailment as well as these runaways are badly affected by sexual health problems most common is genitourinary disorder. Other sexual transmitted diseases are mostly found in runaways and are a major cause of depression & anxiety and sometimes this feeling of loneliness compels them to end up their lives. As they are too young to do any sort of jobs or to do any kind of work, often recruited by people involved in illegal trade, prostitutions or unfair activities,.

Ninety five percent of the street children in Pakistan inhale ‘Samad Bond’ , a common commercial adhesive that creates temporary felling of ‘euphoria’ as it is easily available and is cheap so every child can afford it that can cause ‘fatal organ damage’ and most of the children suffer from respiratory problem because of this addiction .Sometimes these runaways and homeless youth are force to exchange sex for shelter; food, clothing and other basic necessities, and this act increase their risk for HIV infection and other diseases.