For vaccines, here is a list of what to do:
Plus the usual list of vaccines that you need to check up.
See the GPs, doctors and physicians section for more information on hospitals but here is a non-exhaustive list of hospitals, all run by the Hospital Authority you can go to knowing that you do not need to pay for an emergency:
Hong Kong will have most of the drugs you would find in your own country (whether prescribed or not) with perhaps slightly different names but the generics will be the same obviously.
Again here is a non-exhaustive list of pharmacies where you may get you medicines from and where hopefully you should be understood if you speak some English:
Update 8/04/2010
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