FRIDAY DECEMBER 1, 1989
22
PUBLIC URGED TO JOIN IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS
LEGISLATIVE COUNCILLOR MRS PEGGY LAM TO THE PUBLIC TO JOIN THE WORLDWIDE IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME.
EFFORT
TODAY (FRIDAY) AGAINST AIDS,
APPEALED ACQUIRED
SECOND WORLD
THE APPEAL WAS MADE AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE
AIDS DAY.
STEERING
ON
AIDS
OUR
THE
COMMITTEE MRS LAM, WHO IS CHAIRMAN OF EDUCATION ACTIVITIES, SAID WORLD AIDS DAY WAS A TIME "TO HEIGHTEN AWARENESS ABOUT AIDS, TO CARE FOR OURSELVES AND EVERYONE WE COME CONTACT WITH AND TO CONTINUE OUR ACTIVITIES AGAINST AIDS".
AS THE FOCUS FOR THIS YEAR'S WORLD AIDS DAY WAS ON SAID, A SERIES OF ACTIVITIES HAD BEEN PLANNED WITH THAT IN MIND.
BE
INTO
YOUTH, SHE TARGET GROUP
AN AIDS YOUTH CONCERT MRS LAM SAID THERE WOULD PIAZZA IN KOWLOON PARK ON SUNDAY (DECEMBER 3). THE CONCERT BROADCAST LIVE ON RADIO BY RADIO TELEVISION HONG KONG.
AT THE WOULD DR
SEMINARS FOR YOUTH AND DRAMA COMPETITION
OTHER ACTIVITIES INCLUDE A SERIES OF POST-SECONDARY COLLEGE STUDENTS, A YOUTH SEXUALITY AND AN ESSAY COMPETITION ON AIDS.
HAS BEEN PLANNED
VARIOUS STAGED AT
FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC, A ROVING EXHIBITION WITH AN AIM TO REACH THE LARGEST POSSIBLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN DISTRICTS. THE FIRST OF THESE DISTRICT EXHIBITIONS WILL BE THE LOK WAH COMMUNITY CENTRE IN KWUN TONG, FROM DECEMBER 15 TO 17.
WORKERS WHO FOR SPECIAL GROUPS, A SEMINAR FOR THE HEALTH CARE
DUKE OF WORK WITH DRUG ABUSERS WILL BE HELD AT THE AUDITORIUM OF THE
13 DECEMBER
AND ON BUILDING
WAN IN
CHAI WINDSOR SOCIAL SERVICE
DECEMBER ANOTHER ONE FOR RECOVERING DRUG ABUSERS AT THE SAME VENUE ON 16.
INFORM THE PUBLIC MRS LAM SAID ALL THESE ACTIVITIES AIMED TO ON HOW AIDS WAS SPREAD AND HOW THE INFECTION COULD BE PREVENTED.
SHE
THANKED
ALL
CONTRIBUTIONS IN THE PLANNING AND
SUPPORT OF THIS YEAR'S WORLD AIDS DAY, AND THE WAI KIU TAO JIH PAO AND THE HENG SENG BANK FOR THEIR KIND DONATIONS,
INVOLVED THOSE
ORGANISING
THEIR VALUABLE. FOR OF THE ACTIVITIES IN
YAT PO,
SING
SERVICES), OF. EARLIER, THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR (SPECIAL HEALTH
EXPLAINED THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, DR PAUL SAW, PLACING THE EMPHASIS ON YOUTH.
"YOUTH MAY BE
MORE
LIKELY
THAN OTHERS
TO
BEHAVIOUR. YET ARE OFTEN LESS LIKELY TO INFECTION WITH THE HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS,
IN ENGAGE BE AWARE OF THE RISKS
RISK
OF
"
HE SAID.
THE VARIOUS