TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1990
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NO NEW AIDS CASES REPORTED
* * * * *
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS REMAINS AT
CASES IN HONG KONG
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SAID TODAY
(ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY
32 TO
A DATE, (TUESDAY).
SYNDROME) SPOKESMAN FOR THE
HOWEVER, ONE OF THE AIDS PATIENTS, SUFFERING FROM THE DISEASE IN 1988, DIED THIS MONTH.
WHO WAS
ΤΟ CONFIRMED
BE
PASSED ARE UNDER
THIS BRINGS TO 18 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PATIENTS WHO HAVE
14 OTHER PATIENTS WHILE
ARE STILL ALIVE AND COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT.
AWAY
RELEASING THE
MONTHLY STATISTICS ON
THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE
YEAR,
PROGRAMME, THE SPOKESMAN SAID DURING THE MONTH OF DECEMBER LAST FIVE MORE PERSONS WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER TO 171.
WERR ALL MALE, ONE WAS AN AMONG THE INFECTED PERSONS, WHO
AN AIDS PATIENT IN INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSER AND WAS CONFIRMED TO BE DECEMBER.
OF
THE 171
WERE
ONE WAS AN SOCIAL HYGIENE AND CLINICS AND
55 CARRIERS,
HAEMOPHILIACS, INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSER, 18 WERE PERSONS WHO ATTENDED CLINICS, 57 WERE PATIENTS FROM GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS 40 WERE REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE DOCTORS AND SUBVENTED ORGANISATIONS.
UNDER THE
AIDS
SURVEILLANCE
OF
BY PROGRAMME STARTED
BLOOD 148,000
SPECIMENS HAVE
THE BEEN
GOVERNMENT IN 1985, A TOTAL TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.
MEANWHILE,
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS
BLOOD
TRANSFUSION
SERVICE
HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
UP TO DECEMBER, 658,574 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED
AND 10
WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
/AIDS VIRUS