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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1992

COLLECTIVE SHOULDERS NEEDED TO FIGHT AIDS

HONG KONG PEOPLE SHOULD SPARE NO EFFORT TO JOIN IN THE WAR AGAINST AIDS, THE KILLER DISEASE POSED TO MANKIND TODAY.

TSE TODAY

THE APPEAL WAS MADE BY DR DANIEL OPENING CEREMONY OF THE "SHARING THE CHALLENGE" AIDS AT THE CITY HALL EXHIBITION HALL.

GLOBAL

(FRIDAY)

THE EXHIBITION HELD

AT

OFFICIATING AT THE CEREMONY, DR TSE SAID AIDS GREATEST CHALLENGE TO HUMAN SOCIETY TODAY.

IS

PERHAPS THE

SAID HUMAN

SOCIETY

SHOULD

HE TO FACE UP TO THIS CHALLENGE, PREVENT THE SPREAD OF THIS DISEASE; TO LESSEN ITS IMPACT ON RELEVANT

AND ECONOMICAL AREAS

то AND ETHICAL, SOCIAL,

FOSTER COMPASSION, TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING FOR THE AIDS COMMUNITY.

EXHIBITION DR TSE STRESSED THAT IT WAS MEANINGFUL FOR THE AIDS

WAS AN TO ADOPT THE TIMELY THEME OF "SHARING THE CHALLENGE" AS THERE

то URGENT NEED

MOBILISE GREATER

INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE LOCAL AIDS PREVENTION AND CONTROL PROGRAMME.

"THE TIME HAS COME FOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO JOIN IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS AND BECOME EFFECTIVE MESSENGERS.

"FOR, WITH THE RIGHT KNOWLEDGE, COMES UNDERSTANDING. AND,

COMPASSION, COMES

TOLERANCE AND SUPPORT OF UNDERSTANDING, AFFECTED, HE SAID.

LLI

THE

WITH THOSE

ITS COMMITTEE DR TSE PRAISED THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AIDS AND

SUSTAINED ON EDUCATION AND PUBLICITY ON AIDS FOR THEIR

EFFORTS TO IN PUBLIC EDUCATION PROMOTE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION ON AIDS.

THE "I AM MOST HAPPY TO NOTE THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS HELPED IN

BODY NON-GOVERNMENT

WHICH IS SETTING UP OF THE AIDS FOUNDATION,

COMPLEMENT ACTIVELY DRAWING UP PLANS TO

GOVERNMENT ACTIVITIES, DR

TSE SAID.

**

ALSO OFFICIATING

AT TODAY'S

HEALTH AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON AIDS, DR S.H.

CEREMONY WAS THE DIRECTOR OF

LEE.

LEE DR

POINTED OUT THAT THE FIGHT AGAINST DEFINITELY BE A LONG AND DIFFICULT ONE.

AIDS

WOULD

AIDS CASES

AND ANOTHER NUMBERS ARE

HE SAID: "WE HAVE SO FAR 59 REPORTED 203 PERSONS INFECTED WITH THE AIDS VIRUS. ALTHOUGH THESE RELATIVELY SMALL, WE MUST NOT BE COMPLACENT."

OF

DR LEE SAID THERE HAS BEEN AN UPSURGE OF LOCAL TRANSMISSION THE AIDS VIRUS IN NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES SUCH AS INDIA AND THAILAND.

ORGANISATION HAS WARNED THAT HIV IN FACT, THE WORLD HEALTH INFECTIONS AND AIDS CASES IN THIS REGION ARE EXPECTED TO INCREASE, ADDED.

HE

/"WE MUST