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Notices concerning the proposed works were published in the Gazette today

(Friday).

The plans showing the proposed works can be seen at the central and Western District Office, Public Enquiry Service Centre, ground floor, Harbour Building, 38 Pier Road, Central, the District Lands Office/Tai Po and Tai Po District Office, both in Tai Po Government Offices Building, 1 Ting Kok Road, Tai Po, New Territories.

Any person who wishes to object to the proposal may write to the Secretary for Transport, Central Government Offices, East Wing, second floor, Lower Albert Road, Hong Kong not later than March 21, 1995.

End/Friday, January 20, 1995

HIV/AIDS situation in 1994

A total of 194 persons were found to be positive for the HIV antibody test in 1994, the Department of Health announced today (Friday).

This brings the number of HIV-infected persons in Hong Kong to 520.

Thirty-eight new AIDS cases were reported last year.

The total number of confirmed AIDS cases is 130 with 74 deaths reported.

Of the 520 HIV-infected, 190 acquired the infection through homosexual or bisexual sex and 212 through heterosexual sex; 11 were injecting drug users; one was a mother-to-child transmission around the time of birth; and 66 acquired the infection through contaminated blood or blood products before 1985 when HIV antibody test and safe heat treated clotting concentrates were not available.

As for the remaining 40, the information available was inadequate for classification.

Under the HIV surveillance programme which started in 1985, a total of 354,746 blood specimens have been tested for the HIV antibody.

The Hong Kong Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service has also screened all blood donors for the antibody.

Up to last month, 1,522,448 units of blood had been tested and 36 donors were found positive.

End/Friday, January 20, 1995