WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1994
10 MORE HIV-INFECTED CASES CONFIRMED
THE HIV EIGHT MEN AND TWO WOMEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR
HEALTH ANNOUNCED ANTIBODY TEST LAST MONTH (JULY), THE DEPARTMENT OF TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
THIS BRINGS THE NUMBER OF HIV-INFECTED PERSONS IN HONG KONG
ΤΟ
471.
NEW
MONTH AIDS CASES WERE REPORTED DURING THE FIVE
AND THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES IS 112, WITH 69 DEATHS REPORTED.
OF
INFECTION
THROUGH 471 HIV-INFECTED, 178 ACQUIRED THE THE HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL SEX WHILE 177 THROUGH HETEROSEXUAL SEX; 11 WERE INJECTING DRUG USERS; ONE WAS MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION AROUND THE INFECTION THROUGH CONTAMINATED TIME OF BIRTH; AND 66 ACQUIRED THE
TEST AND SAFE BLOOD OR BLOOD PRODUCTS BEFORE 1985 WHEN HIV ANTIBODY HEAT TREATED CLOTTING CONCENTRATES WERE NOT AVAILABLE.
AS FOR THE REMAINING INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION..
38, THE
INFORMATION AVAILABLE
WAS
UNDER THE HIV SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985,
SPECIMENS OF
HAVE BEEN
FOR TESTED 332,908 BLOOD
THE
A
HIV
TOTAL ANTIBODY.
THE
HONG
KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.
SERVICE
HAS
ALSO
UP TO LAST MONTH, 1,447,003 UNITS OF BLOOD HAVE BEEN TESTED AND 32 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.
PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON LEGCO BOUNDARIES ENDS
* .*
THE BOUNDARY AND ELECTION COMMISSION HAS RECEIVED A TOTAL OF 24 WRITTEN SUBMISSIONS ON THE PROVISIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL'S GEOGRAPHICAL CONSTITUENCIES BOUNDARIES AFTER ITS ONE-MONTH PUBLIC CONSULTATION CLOSED ON AUGUST 27.
THE COMMISSION ALSO HELD THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS WITH INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS ON THE PROPOSALS.
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