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Advisory Council on AIDS meets today
The Advisory Council on AIDS at a meeting today (Tuesday) learnt of the progress made in promulgating the established HIV/AIDS policy which was contained in a document published last October.
A spokesman for the advisory council said the policy document, entitled "Strategies for AIDS Prevention, Care and Control in Hong Kong", listed four major objectives of the local AIDS programmie.
The spokesman said the document covered policy in meeting the needs of people with HIV/AIDS, as well as strategy in education and surveillance.
He said the publication had been distributed to all government departments, voluntary agencies and public libraries in Hong Kong.
Members of the public who are interested in the document may obtain an executive summary of the publication.
Copies of the summary are available from the Department of Health's Central Health Education Unit and three regional health education centres. For enquiries, please call tel 2572 1476.
The advisory council was appointed by the Governor in 1990. It is underpinned by the Scientific Committee on AIDS, the Committee on Education and Publicity on AIDS, and the AIDS Services Development Committee.
End/Tuesday, January 17, 1995
Unemployment and underemployment figures for Sept - Nov 1994
The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for September - November 1994 was 2.1%, and the underemployment rate was 1.4%, according to the latest labour force statistics released today (Tuesday) by the Census and Statistics Department.
The provisional seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the period of October-December 1994 was 2.0%, while the provisional underemployment rate was
1.5%.
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