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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1987
ONE MORE AIDS CASE
CONFIRMED A IN HONG
THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT TODAY (TUESDAY)
DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) AIDS (ACQUIRED
OF
IMMUNE
NEW CASE KONG.
THE NEW CASE IS A NON-CHINESE MAN THE INFECTION.
WHO HAD SEXUALLY ACQUIRED
PREVIOUSLY
TESTED AND
HE WAS AMONG THE AIDS CARRIERS RECENTLY WAS FOUND TO HAVE DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE.
UP TO NOW, SEVEN AIDS PATIENTS HAVE DIED IN HONG KONG,
THE NEW CASE, ANOTHER PATIENT IS UNDER TREATMENT.
BESIDES
OCTOBER,
RELEASING THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FIGURES FOR A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN ANNOUNCED THAT TWO MORE PERSONS WERE FOUND TO BF INFECTED BY THE AIDS VIRUS OUT OF A TOTAL OF 3,471 LAST MONTH.
THIS BRINGS THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS IN HONG BY AIDS TO 106.
OF THE TWO NEW CARRIERS, ONE IS A HAEMOPHILIAC IS A REFERRAL FROM A PRIVATE PRACTITIONER.
PERSONS TESTED
KONG INFECTED
AND THE OTHER
UNIT OF TO MONITOR THE AIDS SITUATION IN HONG KONG, THE VIRUS
PROGRAMME IN 1985 THE DEPARTMENT IMPLEMENTED AN AIDS SURVEILLANCE
HIGH RISK GROUPS. THESE TO CARRY OUT HIV ANTIBODY TESTS ON CERTAIN
ADDICTS GROUPS INCLUDE SEXUALLY PROMISCUOUS PERSONS, INTRAVENOUS DRUG AND MULTI-TRANSFUSED PATIENTS.
BY OCTOBER, A TOTAL OF 70,727 TESTS HAVE BEEN CARRIED OUT UNDER THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME.
DURING OCTOBER, THE
HONG
KONG RED THE
CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION HIV ANTIBODY ON 14,170 SERVICE HAD ALSO CARRIED OUT TESTS FOR UNITS OF DONATED BLOOD, ALL SHOWING NEGATIVE RESULTS.
PROGRAMME
ON DONATED BLOOD WAS OF BLOOD HAVE BEEN
SINCE THE MASS SCREENING STARTED TWO YEARS AGO, A TOTAL OF 324,276 UNITS TESTED AND FIVE WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY THE AIDS VIRUS.
THE AIDS COUNSELLING SERVICE, 1985, RECRIVED 1,781 CALLS LAST MONTH THEY MIGHT HAVE CONTRACTED AIDS.
WAS WHICH
SET UP IN NOVEMBER FROM PEOPLE WHO FEARED THAT
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