Search for the Prevalence of Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, the Hepatitis B Virus and Treponema Pallidum among Different Groups and Areas of the Philippines.

摘要

Information on what is now known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome has been circulated in the Philippines as early as 1983. It was only in 1985, however, that the first kit for AIDS antibody detection was marketed. Then people kept asking, 'Do we have AIDS in the Philippines.' Certain basic information pointed at the proper direction for studying the problem in this country: (1). The virus is not indigenous in the Philippines. (2). The virus is transmitted from an infected person to another through: (a) sexual contact, (b) transfer of blood and blood products, (c) infected mother to an infant before, during or shortly after birth and (d) use or sharing of contaminated I.V. needles and syringes by drug users. Reprints. (jes)