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Programmes/ Projects Supported by ATF

2019

Programmes / Projects supported by the AIDS Trust Fund in November 2019

PPE 705 PM
Application: Mercury III - Intensive Support and Preventive Programme for AIDS and Blood Borne Disease
Applicant: The Society of Rehabilitation and Crime Prevention, Hong Kong
Objectives: The objectives of this programme are:
  1. Continuously provide AIDS and Blood Borne Diseases preventive education services for inmates under custody and in isolated institutes
  2. Found and support different high-risk target groups in keeping their behaviours from risk by consolidating their healthy lifestyle mentality
  3. Found a supportive environment in the isolated institutes by staff training and initiative
  4. Enhance the maintenance of medication of HIV+ clients by linking them up with local medical system
  5. To enhance knowledge of HIV and Sexual Transmitted Diseases among the target community;
  6. To enlarge the coverage of HIV educational service and HIV antibody test among the target community;
  7. To facilitate the target community to sustain a habit of adopting safe sex practice through diversified and strategical intervention;
  8. To facilitate the target community’s involvement in AIDS prevention programs and enhance their acceptance towards PLHIV.
  9. To support and encourage PWID in all ethnicity to maintain a safer practice, in order to prevent HIV and other blood-borne disease transmission in the community.
  10. Enhance the social hygiene awareness as well as the personal hygiene awareness of the PWID community by practicing safety syringe disposal and wound treatment, so as to reduce the risk of general public on needle stick injuries.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Provides HIV combination prevention services to the high risk MSM community; aimed at enhancing their knowledge of HIV/AIDS and blood borne diseases, and reduce the chance of risky behavior.
  14. Expand the coverage of receiving HIV antibody test among the targeted communities.
  15. Apply the “Treatment as prevention” approach; providing referral, escort and counseling service to PLHIV, link them to the health care service, aimed at reducing the risk of further spreading.
Project Duration: July 2020 to June 2021
Contact Person: Mr. Anthony WONG Lai Yin
Health Education Service Supervisor
2/F., No.402&404 Shanghai Street, Kowloon
Telephone: 2780 1331
Fax: 3747 0456