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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1991

TWO MORE AIDS CASES CONFIRMED

SYNDROME)

IN HONG

CASES ANNOUNCED TODAY

IMMUNE DEFICIENCY TWO MORE CASES OF AIDS (ACQUIRED HAD BEEN CONFIRMED, BRINGING THE TOTAL NUMBER OF AIDS KONG TO 56, A SPOKESMAN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (TUESDAY).

WHILE 18 HAVE LEFT HONG

SO FAR, A TOTAL OF 38 AIDS PATIENTS HAVE PASSED AWAY OTHERS ARE EITHER UNDER COUNSELLING AND TREATMENT OR KONG.

RELEASING THE

MONTHLY STATISTICS ON THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE SAID SIX MORE MEN PROGRAMME FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST, THE SPOKESMAN

HIV ANTIBODY TEST, BRINGING THE WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR THE TOTAL NUMBER OF HIV CARRIERS WHO HAVE NOT YET DEVELOPED AIDS TO 190.

116 OF THESE, 52 WERE HAEMOPHILIACS, SEXUALLY, FOUR WERE DRUG ABUSERS,

THREE

+

ACQUIRED THE INFECTION INFECTION THE ACQUIRED

THE OTHER 15 WA9

TOTAL

THROUGH BLOOD TRANSFUSION AND THE INFORMATION FOR INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

UNDER THE AIDS SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME STARTED IN 1985, A OF 204,101 BLOOD SPECIMENS HAVE BEEN TESTED FOR THE AIDS VIRUS.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS

BLOOD

SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

HAS

ALBO

SERVICE TRANSFUSION

UP TO LAST MONTH, 942,947 UNITS OF BLOOD WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

WERE TESTED AND 17

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