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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1987
BE POSITIVE FOR HIV ANTIBODY, OF THESE, NINE WERE FOUND TO
HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, THESE INCLUDE FIVE REFERRALS FROM GOVERNMENT TWO REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS AND TWO HAEMOPHILIACS.
THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE EXTENT OF
FOR THE TESTING.
PEOPLE
WHO
ARE
REFERRED
FROM
INFECTION HAS REMAINED LOW FOR PRACTITIONERS PRIVATE
BE
FROM PRIVATE ONLY TWO OUT OF THE 335 PEOPLE WHO WERE REFERRED
ΤΟ HAVE BEEN FOUND ANTIBODY TEST PRACTITIONERS FOR POSITIVE.
THE
HIV
GROUPS WHO ARE AT RISK PROMISCUOUS PERSONS, ABUSERS ARE TESTED
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME, OF BEING INFECTED BY THE VIRUS SUCH AS SEXUALLY
AND INTRAVENOUS MULTITRANSFUSED PATIENTS FOR THE INFECTION.
DRUG
SINCE APRIL 1985, A TOTAL OF 63,566 AND SO FAR 100 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
PERSONS HAD BEEN TESTED
THE
HONG KONG
RED
BLOOD CROSS FOR 26,098 BLOOD
AND AUGUST, JULY BETWEEN TRANSFUSION SERVICE HAD ALSO CARRIED OUT HIV TESTS DONORS AND NONE OF THEM WAS FOUND TO BE POSITIVE.
TESTED
BY THE RED
1985, THE
AIDS
NUMBER ANTIBODY
SINCE ITS MASS SCREENING PROGRAMME IN AUGUST,
CROSS FOR OF BLOOD DONOR UNITS TOTALLED 295,428.
UP TO NOW, FIVE BLOOD DONOR UNITS WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED THE VIRUS.
BY
SINCE THE GOVERNMENT INTENSIFIED ITS
ON APRIL
THE CAMPAIGN ON AIDS RECEIVED 9,053 CALLS.
21.
EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY
SERVICE COUNSELLING AIDS
HAS
THE SERVICE WAS FIRST SET UP IN NOVERMBER 1985, AND UP OVER 15,380 CALLS WERE RECEIVED,
NOTE TO EDITORS:
FOLLOWING IS A LIST SHOWING THE STATISTICS ON TEST RESULTS FOR JULY AND AUGUST 1987, AND AN ANALYSIS DETECTED SEROPOSITIVE INDIVIDUALS.
то NOW
THE AIDS
BLOOD OF THE NEWLY
/AIDS VIRUS