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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2017

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in January 2017

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Application: Mercury III – Intensive Support and Preventive Programme for AIDS and Blood Borne Disease
(Executive Summary submitted by the applicant)
Applicant: The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong
Objectives: The objectives of this project are:
  1. to educate prisoners, detainees and offenders (different age, gender, nationality and background) of the knowledge on HIV/AIDS and blood-borne disease prevention;
  2. to foster the young persons in custody a healthy life style through life skills-based HIV/AIDS and sex education continuously;
  3. to promote “Zero Discrimination” in custody and residential service through staff training and promotional activities;
  4. to support and encourage IDU community to maintain a safer behaviour practice, in order to prevent HIV and other blood-borne disease transmission in the community;
  5. to enhance the social hygiene awareness as well as the personal hygiene awareness of the IDU community by practicing safety syringe disposal method and wound care method, so as to reduce the risk of general public on needle stick injuries;
  6. to provide graduate training to rehabilitated drug users, train them up as peer volunteer or peer educators; and make use of the positive peer influence to promote harm reduction education in the whole community;
  7. to expand the geographical coverage of Voluntary Counselling and Testing Service and to increase motivation of the clients by providing convenient VCTs venue and mobilize service;
  8. to extend the coverage of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Service (VCT) targeting non-Chinese ethnic key population, including Injecting Drug Abusers, Drug Abusers, MSM, Female Sex Workers and their clients;
  9. to scale up the coverage of HIV prevention in non-Chinese ethnic community;
  10. to strengthen the linkage to the treatment and care service targeting non-Chinese ethnic PLHIV; and
  11. to further promote harm reduction and, foster a discrimination-free atmosphere in the non-Chinese ethnic community.
Project Duration: July 2017 to June 2018
Contact Person: Anthony WONG Lai Yin
Health Education Service Supervisor
Room 603, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Telephone: 2780 1331
Fax: 3747 0456