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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1994

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SIX MORE HIV INFECTED CASES CONFIRMED

THE HIV TODAY

FOUR MEN AND TWO WOMEN WERE FOUND TO BE POSITIVE FOR ANTIBODY TEST

ANNOUNCED LAST MONTH, THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (TUESDAY).

435.

THIS BRINGS THE NUMBER OF HIV INFECTED PERSONS IN HONG KONG TO

ONE NEW AIDS CASE WAS REPORTED DURING THE MONTH.

THE TOTAL NUMBER OF CONFIRMED AIDS CASES IS 100 WITH 65

DEATHS

REPORTED.

OF THE 435 HIV INFECTED, 165 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION THROUGH 11 WERE HOMOSEXUAL OR BISEXUAL SEX AND 157 THROUGH HETEROSEXUAL SEX, INJECTING DRUG USERS, AND 65 ACQUIRED THE INFECTION THROUGH

BLOOD CONTAMINATED

HIV OR BLOOD PRODUCTS BEFORE 1985 WHEN

ANTIBODY TEST AND SAFE HEAT TREATED CLOTTING CONCENTRATES WERE NOT AVAILABLE.

FOR THE REMAINING 37, THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE WAS INADEQUATE FOR CLASSIFICATION.

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BLOOD SPECIMENS

THE HIV SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME WHICH STARTED IN 1985, 318,763

HAVE BEEN TESTED

THE FOR

HIV

UNDER OF

TOTAL ANTIBODY.

THE HONG KONG RED CROSS BLOOD TRANSFUSION SCREENED ALL BLOOD DONORS FOR AIDS.

SERVICE HAS ALSO

UP TO LAST MONTH 1,389,739 UNITS OF BLOOD HAD BEEN TESTED

· 29 DONORS WERE FOUND POSITIVE.

AND

WORKS DEPARTMENTS GEARED TO FACE CHALLENGES AHEAD

THE WORKS GROUP OF DEPARTMENTS ARR FACING TREMENDOUS CHALLENGES AHEAD, THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY, SIR HAMTSH MACLEOD, SAID TODAY (TUESDAY).

HE WAS SPEAKING AT A RECEPTION TO MARK THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF PUBLIC WORKS IN HONG KONG.

SIR HAMISH SAID THE SECRETARY FOR WORKS AND HIS DEPARTMENTS WOULD NEED TO MEET VERY SUBSTANTIAL TARGETS THIS FINANCIAL YEAR.

THEY INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OF 13 KILOMETRES OF NEW ROAD, THE FORMATION OF OVER 200 HECTARES OF NEW LAND, THE INCREASE IN FRESH WATER SUPPLY FOR THE NEW TERRITORIES BY 500,000 CUBIC METRES AND THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE $5.2 STRATEGIC SEWAGE DISPOSAL SCHEME.

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BILLION

/THE GOVERNMENT