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TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1988

SEVEN MORE AIDS CARRIERS FOUND IN FEBRUARY

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IN FEBRUARY DEFICIENCY SYNDROME)}

ANOTHER SEVEN PERSONS IN HONG KONG WERE FOUND HAVE BEEN INFECTED BY THE AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE VIRUS.

MEDICAL AND HEALTH AIDS

THIS WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY (TUESDAY) BY THE DEPARTMENT WHEN IT RELEASED THE LATEST MONTHLY STATISTICS ON THE SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS CASES REMAINS AT 12 WITH NO NEW

CASES

CONFIRMED.

SURVEILLANCE

IS CARRIED OUT BY THE DISEASE IN HONG KONG. THE VIRUS) IMMUNODEFICIENCY

DRUG ARUSERS AND

PROGRAMME THE AIDS DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR THE SPREAD OF THE

(HUMAN HIV HIGH RISK GROUPS TESTED FOR THE

INTRAVEN EOUS ANTIBODY INCLUDE HAEMOPHILIACS, SEXUALLY PROMISCUOUS PEOPLE.

TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS THE LATEST FIGURE BRINGS TO 117 THE

THIS FIGURE

THE INCLUDES INFECTED FOUND TO

BY THE HIV. BE CONFIRMED AIDS CASES OF WHICH 10 OF THE PATIENTS HAD DIED.

12

OF

SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE HIV 1985, A TOTAL ANTIBODY.

82,530

PERSONS

PROGRAMME SCREENING

BEEN HAVE

IN APRIL TESTED FOR THE AIDS

OF

THE

117 28

PERSONS WERE

FOUND REFERRALS

TO FROM

BE

HIV GOVERNMENT

POSITIVE,

52

WERE

HOSPITALS

HAEMOPHILIACS,

AND

CLINICS, 28 WERE REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE AND SUBVENTED SECTORS AND NINE HYGIENE (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE) WERE PATIENTS OF THE SOCIAL

CLINICS,

TRANSFUSION SERVICE LAST MONTH, THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD

OF THE DONOR SCREENED A TOTAL OF 10,614 UNITS OF BLOOD AND ONLY ONE

OF THE HIV ANTIBODY AND THIS WAS UNITS WAS FOUND TO BE POSITIVE INCLUDED IN THE MID'S FEBRUARY STATISTICS.

RED.

CROSS COMMENCED

ITS

SCREENING

PROGRAMME

OF

A TOTAL DETECTED

SINCE THE DONATED BLOOD FOR THE PRESENCE OF AIDS VIRUS IN AUGUST 1985, OF 373,198 BLOOD UNITS HAVE BEEN SCREENED. SIX OF THESE WERE TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE HIV ANTIBODY.

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