People in China have been urged to follow safe sex guidelines by the government after new health department statistics showed more than 100 people were infected with HIV between January and March.
As well as 101 new instances of the HIV virus, there were also 19 cases of Aids in the first three months of the year, according to Dr Wong Ka-hing, the Department of Health's HIV/Aids consultant.
The majority of new reports involved men between 30 and 39, with 37 of the cases transmitted homosexually and 20 heterosexually. About 60% of homosexual men and half of heterosexual men picked up their infections in Hong Kong. A mother also passed the virus on to her child in one instance.
Dr Wong said: "This shows that pregnant women still need to remain alert, although the number of infections has dropped. A lot of these infections could have been avoided with proper use of condoms, as sexual contact remains a major mode of HIV transmission in Hong Kong."
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