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70 New HIV Cases Reported in Q2 in HK

Posted on: Wednesday, 17 August 2005, 09:00 CDT

70 new HIV cases reported in Q2 in HK

HONG KONG, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Seventy people tested positive for the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) antibody in the second quarter of this year, said the Hong Kong Center for Health Protection on Tuesday.

This brings the total reported HIV infections in Hong Kong to 2,647, the center said.

Twenty new cases of AIDS - for Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome -- were reported in the same period, bringing the total number of confirmed AIDS cases reported since 1985 to 743.

The Department of Health said 65 percent of the new cases were related to heterosexual contact.

The department's Special Preventive Program Senior Health Officer Raymond Ho said on Tuesday that forty-eight of the 70 new cases reported were men while the 22 others were women. Of them, 28 acquired HIV through heterosexual contact, 20 through homosexual or bisexual contact, three through intravenous drug use and one through a non-local blood transfusion.

However, he said it was not known how the other 18 cases had acquired the disease.

In this quarter, most of the AIDS patients suffered from tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs.

Of the 2,647 cumulative total of HIV infections since 1984, around 78 percent acquired infection through sexual contact. Of them, 69 percent resulted from heterosexual transmission and 95 infections occurred among injection drug users.

Source: Xinhua News Agency - CEIS

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