Skip to Content

Women

Roving Exhibition in the street
Women and AIDS'' Street
Roving Exhibition
Be a Healthy Traveller Exhibition at border
Workshop for Maternal and
Child Health Personnel

Objectives:

  • To arouse the awareness and empower women with HIV/AIDS knowledge so that they can protect themselves from getting the infection
  • To promote HIV/AIDS education in family
  • To prevent perinatal transmission of HIV/AIDS

Activities:

  1. Production of health education materials and souvenirs on prevention of STI/AIDS for women
  2. Organize roving exhibitions in estates and in the streets bearing the theme ''Women and AIDS''. ''Safety'' kits as souvenir were delivered to remind women to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS.
  3. Production of a set of Train the Trainers transparencies and commentaries on "Women and HIV/AIDS" for conducting health talk to women
  4. Promotion of "Universal Antenatal HIV Testing". This includes a series of systematic, multi-disciplinary approach programmes:
    1. Resources on “Universal Antenatal HIV Testing” such as poster, multimedia, information pamphlets, etc. were produced.
    2. Organization of seminars for all doctors working in Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHCs)
    3. Organization of workshops for MCHCs staff to equip them with HIV/AIDS knowledge and to promote HIV counselling and testing in MCHCs

Universal Antenatal HIV Testing

From 1 September 2001, all clients attending the Maternal and Child Health Centres of the Department of Health (DH) and the Antenatal clinics of Hospital Authority (HA) hospitals will be offered the HIV test as part of routine antenatal blood testing without additional charge.

Woman infected by the HIV virus runs a 15 per cent to 40 per cent chance of passing the virus to her baby during pregnancy, delivery or while breast-feeding.

Screening during pregnancy enables early detection of HIV infection in the mother and allows prompt intervention. Treatment comprises the use of drugs acting against the virus, which are given in the course of pregnancy, during delivery and to the baby after birth. Early detection and treatment has been proven to be effective in reducing the chance of mother-to-child HIV transmission by two-thirds.