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TALKING POINTS

Talking points

21 May 2013

ESF board debates fee increases

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HKU scientists find potential new HIV drug

16 May 2013

Local researchers have found a new way to tackle HIV, through a vaccine that boosts the number of a white blood cell that can kill the virus.

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Coroner recommends surgeons report injuries sustained during operations

13 Mar 2013

The coroner’s court found on Wednesday that HIV-infected Dr Wong Ho-hing died of suicide in January last year.

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HIV risk from doctors is 'extremely low'

13 Mar 2013

The risk of HIV-positive health care workers infecting patients is "extremely low", a health consultant said yesterday at an inquest into the death of a surgeon who had contracted HIV.

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HIV at 30-year high with more gay men infected

7 Mar 2013

HIV infection is on the rise in Hong Kong, with a 30-year high of 513 new cases recorded last year, health authorities say. The cases marked a 17 per cent rise from 2011, Dr Wong Ka-hing,...

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Short Science, January 20, 2013

20 Jan 2013

An Australian scientist says he has found a way to turn the HIV virus against itself in human cells in the laboratory. David Harrich from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research said he...

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Opinion

Alex Lo

Rankings belie the real purpose of universities: to educate

3 comments

12:54AM

Howard Winn

Way to go

2:01AM

Outrage at Guangdong plan to ban teachers with HIV and STDs

A draft regulation unveiled by Guangdong education authorities that would ban HIV carriers and people with sexually transmitted diseases from applying for jobs as teachers has triggered a huge...

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Probe finds HKU dental clinic's 'serious negligence' put 254 at risk

Staff at a university dental clinic who failed to properly sanitise tools were guilty of "serious negligence", an internal investigation has found.

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Erasing HIV stigma in Hong Kong still has a way to go

A young doctor said to be HIV positive committed suicide in March. His death was splashed across the media, and the public reacted with fear and ignorance. Sadly, if we do not do our best to...

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UP CLOSE &AMP; PERSONAL

Living with HIV

I am 42 years old and have been living with HIV for 17 years. I discovered I was HIV positive after running a fever for a long time. I went to the hospital; the doctor said that I had a lung...

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Rise in HIV cases third-highest in 28 years

The Health Department recorded 122 new HIV cases in the first three months of this year, the third-highest quarterly figure since 1984, when the first case was found in Hong Kong.

It...

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Call for doctors to declare HIV status exaggerates risk of disease transmission

I am saddened by the call from a local concern group last month for the declaration of one's HIV status to be made mandatory in the health care profession.

The call was made in the...

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