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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1987

TWO MORE AIDS CASES

DEPARTMENT

TODAY

(TUESDAY) ANNOUNCED BYNDROME) CASES,

THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH TWO MORE CONFIRMED AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES IN HONG KONG TO EIGHT.

OF THE EIGHT AIDS PATIENTS, SEVEN HAD DIED

AND ONE IS STILL

ALIVE.

THE EIGHT CASES ARE ALL ADULTS AND HALF OF THEM ARE CHINESE.

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SEVEN MALES AND ONE

FEMALE

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REGARDING THE RISK FACTORS OF THE RIGHT PATIENTS, SIX WERE SEXUALLY ACQUIRED AND TWO WERE UNKNOWN.

ANNOUNCING

THE

LATEST

MONTHLY

STATISTICS

OF THEM

ON THE AIDS PERSONS

BURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME, A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID FOUR MORE WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY THE DEADLY VIRUS IN SEPTEMBER.

VIRUS TO DATE, 104 PERSONS WERE REPORTED TO BE INFECTED BY THE

PATIENTS AND 50 IN HONG KONG, THESE INCLUDE THE RIGHT CONFIRMED AIDS HAEMOPHILIACS.

3.647 PERSONS WERE DURING THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, A TOTAL OF

FOUR OF THEM WERB FOUND TO BE TESTED FOR THE HIV ANTIBODIES AND

TWO

BY PERSONS, FOUR POSITIVE

WERE REFERRED POSITIVE. AMONG THE

ONE GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, ONE BY PRIVATE PRACTITIONER AND WAS A HAEMOPHILIAC.

AT RISK UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME, GROUPS WHO ARE

SEXUALLY OF BEING INFECTED ARE TESTED FOR THE INFECTION. THEY INCLUDE

PATIENTS AND INTRAVENOUS AND PROMISCUOUS PERSONS, MULTI-TRANSFUSED DRUG ABUSERS.

SINCE APRIL 1985, A TOTAL OF 87,256

UNIT OF THE VIRUS THE HIV ANTIBODIES BY DEPARTMENT.

PERSONS WERE TESTED FOR THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH

BLOOD

RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION AT THE SAME TIME, THE HONG KONG SERVICE HAS ALSO CARRIED OUT A MASS SCREENING PROGRAMME FOR ALL DONORS SINCE AUGUST 1985. UP TO NOW, A TOTAL OF 310,106 DONATED UNITS HAVE BEEN TESTED AND FIVE WERE FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY THE VIRUS.

AIDS

LAST MONTH, 14,678 UNITS OF BLOOD FOUND TO BE POSITIVE.

WERE

TESTED AND NONE WAS

MBANWHILE, THE AIDS COUNSELLING

THAT CALLS FROM PROPLE DISEASE.

WHO FEAR

CLINIC THEY MIGHT

CONTINUES TO RECEIVE THE HAVE CONTRACTED

!

IN SEPTEMBER, 1,909 CALLS WERE TO NUMBER OF CALLS RECEIVED 30 FAR CLINIC WAS INTRODUCED IN NOVEMBER 1985.

17,289 SINCE THE COUNSELLING

BRINGING RECEIVED,

THE

TOTAL

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