Editorial Board Vol,12 no.5 –May 2005 (issue no.137) Executive Editor: Mr WONG Man-kong ACA Secretariat ______

Yao Ming and promoting acceptance of people Calendar living with HIV/AID

LI Meeting of the Advisory A 30-second promotional film featuring Council on AIDS (ACA) superstars Ming and Earvin Johnson has been shown 2:30 pm 8 July 2005 on local TV channels since 9 April 2005 to appeal for XXXVI Meeting of the Scientific public acceptance of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Committee on AIDS (SCA) While Yao will ask viewers to show understanding 2:30 pm 28 June 2005 and care to people infected with HIV, Johnson will XX Meeting of the AIDS explain that HIV is not transmitted through ordinary social contact such as hugging, shaking hands or eating Prevention and Care Committee together. Johnson has been living with HIV since 1991. (APCC)

6:30 pm 17 June 2005 The premiere of the film was held during the Silver Shield Basketball Tournament 2005 at Mong XVI Meeting of the Committee Kok’s MacPherson Playground. It was jointly organized on Promoting Acceptance of by the Committee on Promoting Acceptance of People People Living with HIV/AIDS Living HIV/AIDS (CPA) and the Department of Health.

(CPA) The video clip is a local version of a promotional 2:30 pm 8 June 2005 film on AIDS care produced by the AIDS Media Project and the American National Basketball Association. The original film has been broadcast on the IN THIS ISSUE: mainland since last year and been well received. We have Yao Ming and Magic Johnson on page 17

Photo & HIV Update on page 18

ACA Meeting on page 19

HA Standard Drug Formulary on page 20

The video can be viewed on the website www.aids.gov.hk Web site: http://www.aca-hk.com

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Welcome

A new staff member of the SPP

Dr HO Lei-ming, Raymond has been

Prof Chen Char-nie, JP Chairman of the CPA transferred from the Hong Kong Council presenting a souvenir to a player at the on Smoking and Health (COSH) to the premiere. Special Preventive Programme occupying a SMO post since 1 April 2005. Dr Ho will oversee SPP’s prevention and health promotion as well as surveillance and epidemiology programmes.

Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú Ú HIV/AIDS STATISTICS IN HONG KONG updated 31 December 2004

This Quarter 2004 Cumulative HIV AIDS HIV AIDS HIV AIDS Sex Male 46 13 205 44 2017 620 Female 9 2 63 5 495 98

Ethnicity Chinese 37 9 185 37 1742 560

Non-Chinese 18 6 83 12 770 158 Route of Sexual Contacts 27 12 172 43 1965 637 Transmission Heterosexual 16 11 107 35 1373 487 Homosexual 9 1 59 8 487 120 Bisexual 2 0 6 0 105 30 Injecting drug use 5 2 21 3 86 13

Blood/blood 0 0 0 0 68 20 products recipients Perinatal 0 0 0 0 15 6

Undetermined 23 1 75 3 378 42 Total 55 15 268 49 2512 718

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control of HIV/AIDS in prison HIV/AIDS drugs in the settings- overseas experience, proposed standard drug th members noted the formulary. After explanation 50 ACA vulnerability of overseas and clarification by HA Meeting prisons to rapid HIV spread representative at the meeting, chiefly through injecting drug it was understood that The 50th ACA meeting was use. They were also given to HIV/AIDS drugs which had held on 8 April 2005. There know the framework of HIV not been registered in Hong were four main items on the preventive and control Kong or had been prescribed agenda. measures in overseas prisons. on named-patients basis were The measures included: not listed. However, the HA (1) For HIV/AIDS prevention, z Education for prisoners representative assured that care and control programme of and prison staff about there were existing procedures the Correctional Services HIV/AIDS and the ways for attending doctors to Department, members learned to prevent HIV continue prescription of such that there were about 9300 transmission; drugs to indicated HIV/AIDS sentenced prisoners by the end z Counselling and HIV patients. (See HA’s written of 2004 and 26% of them were testing; reply on page 20.) known to be drug addicts at the z Preventing infection from time of admission or with drug injection by provision of (4) Concerning an evaluation abuse history. Members were bleach, provision of of the work of the Hong Kong also made aware that the needle and syringes and Advisory Council on AIDS CSD’s HIV/AIDS prevention, substitution treatment and its three Committees for care and control programme programmes; and the term 2002 to 2005, was based on the following z Preventing infection from members were presented the principles: sexual activities by findings of a questionnaire z No mandatory HIV tests discreet and easy access survey. The results indicated for inmates; to condoms. that the work of the ACA and z HIV status of inmates the three committees including strictly confidential; (3) As regards the introduction the secretariat was generally z No segregation or of a standard drug formulary in very effective. discrimination of HIV Hospital Authority, members positive cases in were presented the paper A draft annual report capturing institutional life; prepared by the Hospital activities of the ACA and the z Emphasis of preventive Authority and the Health, three committees for the period education; and Welfare and Food Bureau for from August 2003 to July 2004 z Universal precaution. the discussion of the Legco was submitted to members for The CSD Medical Services health Services Panel in their comments before getting Committee was responsible for January 2005. Members noted into print. overseeing the translation of the expressed concern by those principles into daily AIDS NGOs and people living ~~The last ACA meeting in routine in correctional with HIV/AIDS over the the current term of office will institutions. inclusion or exclusion of some be held on 8 July 2005.~~ of the commonly used (2) Regarding prevention and

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