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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1992
"WITH YOUR COMMITMENT, DEDICATION AND CO-OPERATION,
HAD REMARKABLE SUCCESSES.
YOU HAVE
"I AM SURE YOU WILL BUILD ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS TO SERVE THE CHANGING NEEDS OF SOCIETY, SHE ADDED.
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TWO MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED
TWO MORE CASES OF AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME) WERE CONFIRMED AND ANOTHER TWO MEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST LAST MONTH, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY).
THESE BRING TO 268 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV INFECTED IN HONG KONG WITH 61 CONFIRMED AIDS CASES.
SO FAR, 40 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE DIED AND 21 OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR HAVE LEFT THE TERRITORY.
OF THE 268 HIV INFECTED, 60 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, 176 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION SEXUALLY, FIVE WERE DRUG ABUSERS AND THREE ACQUIRED THE INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION.
FOR THE REMAINING 24, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION, HE ADDED.
UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 224,731 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD
SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
TRANSFUSION
SERVICE HAS ALSO
UP TO LAST MONTH, 1,024,854 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED AND 17 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
TURNING TO THE PUBLICITY AND
PREVENTION PROGRAMMES ON AIDS,
THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT AS MOST OF THE HIV INFECTED PEOPLE IN HONG KONG WERE YOUNG AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOCAL WORKFORCE, A SEMINAR ENTITLED "AIDS AND THE WORKPLACE
SHARING THE CHALLENGE" WOULD BE HELD ON MARCH 21 WITH AN INTENT TO DISPEL MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AIDS.
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