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Meeting the Crime Prevention Bureau

On 7 June 7, AFRO, together with other sex worker support groups organisations, held a bi-annual meeting with the Crime Prevention Bureau of the Police Force. The representative of AFRO brought up at the meeting that a police officer recently refused to issue a copy of the cautioned statement to a sex worker (as an arrested person), and even claimed that she had to ask a lawyer to go to the police station to apply for that in person... (Read more)

AFRO News Reading

5 Hong Kong sex workers contract HIV in past 10 months, concerned health officials investigate if clients have been infected too
(SCMP, 7 July 2022)
 

Five sex workers in Hong Kong contracted HIV in the past 10 months, which is "unusual" according to health officials, as they investigate if more prostitutes and clients are also infected.

Dr Wong Ka-hing, head of the public health services branch of the Centre for Health Protection, said the new HIV infections among woman sex workers recorded between August in 2021 and June this year were "worthy of concern" and "unusual".

"We have been studying the prevalence rate [of HIV among female sex workers] from time to time. We rarely find HIV infections. Not a single one out of hundreds," he said… (Read full text)

AFRO's Comments:

Anyone who has had sex without a condom has a chance of contracting HIV through sexual contact. AFRO will continue to share important information on the HIV/AIDS and STI prevention with fellow sisters, provide free voluntary HIV and syphilis rapid testing and counselling, and provide follow-up service when necessary. Fellow sisters are welcome to contact us to make an appointment.