The Taipei Municipal Venereal Disease Control Center yesterday said that one of the 10 people detained in a raid on a Nanking E Road dance club last Saturday along with Hong Kong singer William So (
According to the center, it sent officials to carry out blood tests on the 12 people at the Chungshan police precinct office while the police took urine samples from all 12 for drug tests. Conducting such blood tests on people detained during raids on dance clubs and bars is a routine procedure.
"The person who tested positive is a male," a senior center official said. "But it's not So."
The Department of Health confirmed later yesterday that the man who tested positive for HIV is already on its registry of people with HIV or AIDS and his medical treatment has been monitored by the department as is the practice for all those who test positive for HIV.
"Nowadays, we have more and more young [HIV] carriers and most of them are also Ecstasy addicts," said Chiang Ying-lung (江英隆), the deputy director of the department's Center for Disease Control. "After they take the drug, it affects their mental state and they may end up having sex ... without any protection such as condoms and then not remember it. Under these circumstances, it is very easy for them to get infected with HIV."
The Taipei District Prosecutors' Office confirmed on Wed-nesday that So, Anya and five other people detained in the raid on the Texound club tested positive for Ecstasy.
So returned to Hong Kong on Tuesday afternoon after he was released on a NT$10,000 bail.
The pop star promised to return to face legal charges if he was indicted.
The Taipei District Prosecutors' Office has said the seven who tested positive for Ecstasy could face drug charges and if convicted, could be sentenced to a drug treatment program or a maximum of two years in jail.
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