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TUESDAY, JUNE 28. 1988

FOUR AIDS CARRIERS IN MAY

J

KONG WERE ANOTHER FOUR PERSONS IN HONG INFECTED BY THE AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY MAY.

FOUND TO

SYNDROME}

HAVE BEEN

VIRUS

IN

AND MEDICAL

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

HEALTH AJDS

ARE

REMAINS AT 13 SURVIVING

AND

WITH UNDER

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES NO NEW REPORTED CASES. TWO OF THE PATIENTS TREATMENT.

THE

THE THE

PROGRAMME SURVEILLANCE AIDS

IS

OUT CARRIED

BY DISEASE I.N HONG KONG. DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR THE SPREAD OF THE

ANTIBODY INCLUDE HIGH RISK GROUPS TESTED FOR THE HIV

HAEMOPHILIACS, INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSERS AND SEXUALLY PROMISCUOUS PEOPLE.

TOTAL NUMBER OF PERSONS INCLUDING

THE LATEST FIGURE BRINGS TO 122 THE FOUND TO BE INFECTED BY HIV (HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS), THE 13 CONFIRMED AIDS PATIENTS.

OF

92,457

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

PROGRAMME IN

PERSONS

HAVE BEEN

TESTED

FOR

APRIL, THE AIDS

THE OF

122

PERSONS

HAEMOPHILIACS, 31 WERE

CLINICS,

FOUND то

HIV POSITIVE, REFERRALS FROM GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS 28 WERE REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE AND SUBVENTED SECTORS

HYGIENE (SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED WERE PATIENTS OF THE SOCIAL CLINICS.

BE

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WERE AND AND 11 DISEASE)

SERVICE HAD UNITS

IN MAY, THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCREENED A TOTAL OF 13,017 UNITS OF BLOOD AND NONE OF THE DONOR WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR HIV ANTIBODY.

SINCE THE

RED CROSS COMMENCED ITS SCREENING PROGRAMME OF

OF AIDS VIRUS IN AUGUST, DONATED BLOOD FOR THE PRESENCE

1985, A SIX OF THESE WERE TOTAL OF 414,029 BLOOD UNITS HAVE BEEN SCREENED. DETECTED TO BE POSITIVE FOR HIV ANTIBODY.

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