Paid sex was behind most of the 918 cases of Filipinos found to be carrying the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in October 2017.

These cases brought to 9,217 the partial total for last year of the number of Filipino HIV carriers, according to the Department of Health (DoH)-Epidemiology Bureau.

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