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I have not come across anything specific on transmitting of STD being a crime in HK only on prostitution per se.
Below is an excerpt on Hong Kong from an international report on Commercial Sex Workers.
"Hong Kong’s law tracks the Trafficking Convention and permits CSWs to work independently. High-class, well-connected CSWs and brothel owners are generally left alone by the police. The harassment and abuse is reserved for the most vulnerable women—the streetwalkers who are mainly older, working-class women with families. Streetwalkers are regularly arrested for soliciting even if they do not solicit because the police have restricted the law’s gender-neutral solicitation provision to apply only to women and not men.Thus, if a police officer (who may have been given a picture book of all CSWs in his district) sees a man approach a CSW, the CSW will automatically be arrested for solicitation even if the man initiated the negotiations. The women generally plead guilty and pay a fine, guilty or not, so as to avoid a trial where their word is given little credence against that of the police. Technically, CSWs cannot be arrested for working in brothels either so police arrest them for solicitation instead. The police encourage tricks picked up in brothel raids to testify that the women solicited them. This tactic usually fails, however, as the men have no interest in sending CSWs to prison. Some critics and feminists object to the discriminatory enforcement of the solicitation law, arguing that tricks and other CSWs should also be arrested. However, the problem is not so much the unequal application of the laws as the presence of the laws. Greater enforcement will simply lead to greater abuses. In fact, CSWs do not want men arrested for solicitation because it would drive away their only source of income.
The one-woman brothel limitation is evaded through the operation of nightclubs where men meet the CSWs then take them off-premises to a "love motel" or elsewhere for sex. As long as the sexual activity takes place off-premises and the club owner is paid only for drinks, food, and hostess time and not for providing CSWs, the club is beyond the reach of the law because the women appear to be or actually are working as their own agents. Illegal multi-CSW brothels also exist but the police turn a blind eye to these businesses and engage only in sporadic raids. Reports appear, from time to time, about women and girls held prisoners in some of the brothels but little is known about the extent of the problem. Most, if not all, of the brothels, as well as the clubs, are owned by criminal triads.
The majority of Hong Kong’s CSWs are now from mainland China. Mainlanders and other non-residents need a visa in order to work. Until recently, the police simply deported mainland women caught working in the CSI because the sale of sexual services is not considered work under Hong Kong law. The Immigration Department will not grant "sex work" visas and labor laws do not cover CSWs. Several legislators were incensed to learn that CSWs were not being sent to prison and so they forced the police to change the no-arrest policy. Mainland CSWs on tourist visas are now arrested for "working" without a visa and the female prison population has doubled as a result. Unfortunately, Hong Kong does not have a public interest law clinic to take up the cases of mainland CSWs so the imprisonments for "working" without a visa continue unabated."
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