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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2011

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in January 2011

PPE 604 PM
Application: Intensive Support and Preventive Programme for AIDS and Blood-borne Diseases
(Executive Summary submitted by the applicant)
Applicant: The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong
Objectives: The aims of this programme are:-
  1. to scale up the coverage to more Correctional Institutes of Correctional Service Department (CSD), in order to extend the service of prevention education of HIV/AIDS and Blood-borne disease and to intensify the education impact
  2. to extend the prevention education service to more institutions, particularly to those detaining inmates with history of drug abuse or sex work
  3. through intensive education groups, provide specific and targeted interventions to inmates with different backgrounds so as to enhance the educational impact.
  4. to educate and enhance the knowledge of HIV and blood-borne diseases to Female Sex Workers, Sex Worker Go-betweens and Sex Worker Clients;
  5. to enhance the motivation of clients to prevent the disease through engagement in Voluntary Counselling and Testing Services;
  6. through interventions from professional social workers, to increase the sustainability of safer sex practices among the above mentioned communities, with the purpose of contributing to the overall prevalence of HIV in Hong Kong to be kept at a low level.
  7. through specific and targeted interventions and outreaching community works, to promote prevention education of HIV/AIDS and blood-borne diseases and harm reduction education to the Chinese drug abusers community; to reduce the behaviours that exposing them to the risks of contracting HIV/AIDS, and to provide Voluntary Counselling and Testing Service of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis C to those in need.
  8. through outreaching and community works on Nepalese and Ethnic minority drug abusers (particularly to those who practice drug injection), provide prevention education of HIV/AIDS and blood-borne diseases and introduction of harm reduction to the target communities; to reduce the risk taking behaviours of contracting HIV and blood-borne diseases and also provide related health check-up and supporting services to those in need (including Counselling and Testing Service of antibodies of HIV, syphilis, hepatitis C).
Project Duration: July 2011 to June 2014
Contact Person: Ms. Yuen How-sin
Health Education Service Manager
2/F., 402-404, Shanghai Street
Kowloon
Telephone: 2323 3983
Fax: 2332 3934