| 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 |