TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1992
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SEVEN MORE HIV INFECTED CASES CONFIRMED
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SEVEN MORE PERSONS INCLUDING A WOMAN WERE FOUND TO BE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY TEST LAST MONTH (SEPTEMBER), BRINGING THE OF HIV INFECTED PERSONS IN HONG KONG TO 317.
POSITIVE NUMBER
MEETING
THE DURING
REVIEWING THE LATEST AIDS SITUATION AT A MONTHLY MEDIA
OF AFTERNOON, THIS
THE DEPARTMENT (TUESDAY)
CONSULTANT HEALTH'S PHYSICIAN (SPECIAL PREVENTIVE PROGRAMME), DR S S LEE, SAID ONE OF NEW HIV INFECTED BATCH HAD ALSO BEEN CONFIRMED AS AIDS PATIENT THE MONTH.
IN ADDITION, ONE PERSON WHO DIED IN THE SAME MONTH.
HAD RECENTLY BEEN HIV INFECTED
THE 25 THIS BRINGS TO 69 CONFIRMED AIDS CASES WITH 44 DEATHS.
OR HAVE LEFT THE OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT TERRITORY.
ACQUIRED
THE
ANTIBODY
217 HAEMOPHILIACS, OF THE 317 HIV INFECTED, 61 WERE THE INFECTION SEXUALLY, SIX WERE DRUG ABUSERS, AND THREE ACQUIRED
BEFORE 1985 WHEN HIV INFECTION THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION TEST WAS NOT AVAILABLE.
FOR THE REMAINING 30, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WAS FOR CLASSIFICATION.
INADEQUATE
BLOOD
SPECIMENS
1985, A UNDER THE HIV SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN
HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE HIV TOTAL OF 248,901 ANTIBODY.
THE HONG KONG RED CROSS SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
BLOOD
SERVICE TRANSFUSION
HAS
ALSO
UP TO LAST MONTH, 1,140,474 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED 26 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
TURNING TO THE TELEPHONE COUNSELLING SERVICE (780
EDUCATION PROVIDED BY THE AIDS COUNSELLING AND HEALTH NOVEMBER 1985, DR LEE SAID IT PLAYED A SIGNIFICANT ROLE AIDS EDUCATION.
AND
2211) BEING SERVICE SINCE IN PROMOTING
THAN
MANNED BY EXPERIENCED NURSE-COUNSELLORS, MORE
90,000 AN AVERAGE OF SOME CALLS HAVE SO FAR BEEN MADE TO THE SERVICE WITH 1,000 CALLS FOR EACH MONTH.
THIS YEAR HAS SHOWN A "THE NUMBER OF CALLS RECEIVED SO FAR
HE ADDED. STEADY INCREASE COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE PAST THREE YEARS,
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