| antibiotic prophylaxis among commercial sex workers in cebu city, philippines. patterns of use and perceptions of efficacy. | this study describes the extent to which commercial sex workers (csw) in cebu city, philippines perceive prophylactic antibiotic use to be an effective form of prevention for sexually transmitted diseases (std) and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), as well as the prevalence of this self-treatment practice. | 1996 | 8885073 |
| tracking the entry routes of hepatitis c virus as a surrogate of hiv in an hiv-low prevalence country, the philippines. | from 2002 to 2007, 1,590 individuals were enrolled in an active surveillance program conducted in metro cebu, philippines, where the anti-hcv-positive rate was significantly and constantly high among injecting drug users (83%, 793/960; 71-88%), especially among those living in downtown (89%, 683/770; 87-100%), despite the extremely low percentage of anti-hiv-positives (0.34%, 3/874). sampling areas were then enlarged nationwide and the number of samples increased to 2,645 at the end of 2007. a t ... | 2009 | 19475613 |
| rapid spread of hepatitis c virus among injecting-drug users in the philippines: implications for hiv epidemics. | from the trends of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) epidemics in south and southeast asia, it was postulated that an hiv epidemic would start as a blood-borne infection among injecting-drug users in the philippines. in 2002, 560 individuals were recruited in metro cebu, philippines and tested for hiv, hepatitis c virus (hcv), and hepatitis b virus (hbv) infections. the seroprevalence of anti-hcv among injecting-drug users (70.1%, 61/87) was significantly higher than those among inhalation drug ... | 2005 | 16121359 |
| the early phase of an hiv epidemic in a population exposed previously to hcv in the philippines. | human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) sentinel surveillance program for injecting drug users has been conducted in metro cebu, the philippines. a low prevalence (0-0.52%) of anti-hiv-positivity had been detected in this population from 2002 to 2007. however, a 10-fold increase in hiv prevalence was detected in the 2009 national hiv sentinel surveillance program. it prompted an additional outreach program to be conducted in metro cebu in january 2010, which recorded the highest hiv prevalence rate e ... | 2011 | 21503904 |
| decs tries out instructional materials on aids prevention education. | a national try-out of the newly developed print and non-print instructional materials on aids education is being conducted by the department of education, culture and sports (decs) this school year 1993-to 1994. to determine the effectiveness of these materials, various public and private schools in region iv (southern tagalog), vii (central visayas) xi (southern mindanao) and national capital region (metro, manila) were chosen as try-out institutions. the aids education materials will be trie ... | 1994 | 12345770 |
| filipinos face up to a brutal reality. | this article describes the context for aids transmission and prevention in the philippines. the main form of transmission of aids in the philippines is by heterosexual sex. by 1995 there were 679 hiv infected persons, of whom about 55% were men and 45% were women. about 50% of the hiv infected males were considered to be homosexuals. health officials estimate about 30,000 aids cases, and project 90,000 cases by the year 2000. the numbers are expected to rise among women who maintain sexual ... | 1995 | 12291189 |