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TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1989

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ONE MORE AIDS CASE CONFIRMED

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ONE MORE PERSON IN HONG KONG WAS FOUND AIDS (ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME), DEPARTMENT CONFIRMED TODAY (TUESDAY).

TO BE SUFFERING FROM THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH

ACQUIRED THE DISEASE

AIDS

THE NEW PATIENT IS A MAN WHO THE FIGURE BRINGS TO 20 THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HONG KONG.

SEXUALLY,

CASES REPORTED IN

STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE RELEASING THE FEBRUARY

OF THE AIDS PROGRAMME, A DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID THAT, 30 FAR, 12

OTHER FIGHT PATIENTS WERE STILL PATIENTS HAD DIED. THE

RECEIVING

COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT.

FOUND TO BE CARRIERS

PERIOD, ONE MORE PERSON WAS DURING THE SAME POSITIVE FOR THE HIV TEST, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS TO 141.

HAEMOPHILIACS,

OF THE 141 CARRIERS, 53 WERE

15 WERE PERSONS WHO ATTENDED SOCIAL HYGIENE CLINICS, 41 WERE PATIENTS FROM GOVERNMENT HOSPITALS AND CLINICS, AND 32 WERE REFERRALS FROM PRIVATE DOCTORS SUBVENTED ORGANISATIONS.

SURVEILLANCE

AND

PROGRAMME STARTED

HAVE BEEN TESTED

BY THE FOR

UNDER THE AIDS GOVERNMENT IN 1985, A TOTAL OF 120,247 PEOPLE 1.E AIDS VIRUS.

MEANWHILE, THE HONG KONG RED CROSS HAS ALSO SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

UP TO FEBRUARY, 524,849 UNITS OF EIGHT UNITS WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE.

BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

BLOOD HAD

BEEN TESTED AND

/AIDS VIRUS