| rapid assessment of injection practices in cambodia, 2002. | injection overuse and unsafe injection practices facilitate transmission of bloodborne pathogens such as hepatitis b virus (hbv), hepatitis c virus (hcv), and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). anecdotal reports of unsafe and unnecessary therapeutic injections and the high prevalence of hbv (8.0%), hcv (6.5%), and hiv (2.6%) infection in cambodia have raised concern over injection safety. to estimate the magnitude and patterns of such practices, a rapid assessment of injection practices was con ... | 2005 | 15929800 |
| prevalence of markers of hepatitis viruses a, b, c and of hiv in healthy individuals and patients of a cambodian province. | so far little was known on the epidemiology of hepatitis a, b, c and of aids in cambodia and especially not in the rural area of takeo. therefore serological markers for past or ongoing infections with the disease causing viruses were measured in 559 healthy individuals (305 adults, 200 children and 54 mothers of children with liver disorders) and in 185 individuals (103 adults and 82 children) with liver or kidney diseases. in none of the 744 samples tested was anti-hiv detected. 10-37% of the ... | 1993 | 7505485 |