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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1987

BE POSITIVE FOR HIV ANTIBODY, OF THESE, NINE WERE FOUND TO

HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, THESE INCLUDE FIVE REFERRALS FROM GOVERNMENT TWO REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE PRACTITIONERS AND TWO HAEMOPHILIACS.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THE EXTENT OF

FOR THE TESTING.

PEOPLE

WHO

ARE

REFERRED

FROM

INFECTION HAS REMAINED LOW FOR PRACTITIONERS PRIVATE

BE

FROM PRIVATE ONLY TWO OUT OF THE 335 PEOPLE WHO WERE REFERRED

ΤΟ HAVE BEEN FOUND ANTIBODY TEST PRACTITIONERS FOR POSITIVE.

THE

HIV

GROUPS WHO ARE AT RISK PROMISCUOUS PERSONS, ABUSERS ARE TESTED

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME, OF BEING INFECTED BY THE VIRUS SUCH AS SEXUALLY

AND INTRAVENOUS MULTITRANSFUSED PATIENTS FOR THE INFECTION.

DRUG

SINCE APRIL 1985, A TOTAL OF 63,566 AND SO FAR 100 WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

PERSONS HAD BEEN TESTED

THE

HONG KONG

RED

BLOOD CROSS FOR 26,098 BLOOD

AND AUGUST, JULY BETWEEN TRANSFUSION SERVICE HAD ALSO CARRIED OUT HIV TESTS DONORS AND NONE OF THEM WAS FOUND TO BE POSITIVE.

TESTED

BY THE RED

1985, THE

AIDS

NUMBER ANTIBODY

SINCE ITS MASS SCREENING PROGRAMME IN AUGUST,

CROSS FOR OF BLOOD DONOR UNITS TOTALLED 295,428.

UP TO NOW, FIVE BLOOD DONOR UNITS WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED THE VIRUS.

BY

SINCE THE GOVERNMENT INTENSIFIED ITS

ON APRIL

THE CAMPAIGN ON AIDS RECEIVED 9,053 CALLS.

21.

EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY

SERVICE COUNSELLING AIDS

HAS

THE SERVICE WAS FIRST SET UP IN NOVERMBER 1985, AND UP OVER 15,380 CALLS WERE RECEIVED,

NOTE TO EDITORS:

FOLLOWING IS A LIST SHOWING THE STATISTICS ON TEST RESULTS FOR JULY AND AUGUST 1987, AND AN ANALYSIS DETECTED SEROPOSITIVE INDIVIDUALS.

то NOW

THE AIDS

BLOOD OF THE NEWLY

/AIDS VIRUS