Islamabad, May 6 (IANS) The rapid rise of HIV cases in Pakistan is not a slow-burning public health concern but a system failure unfolding in real time. Children and low-risk individuals are infected with HIV not due to behaviour but through the healthcare system meant to protect them, a report has detailed. Two converging failures are behind this trajectory, an editorial in Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn mentioned.”The first is the collapse of basic infection control across large parts of our he…
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Islamabad, April 28 (IANS) A Global Fund (GF) team is expected to visit Islamabad soon to examine the situation amid rising number of HIV cases in Pakistan, local media reported. The visit has become extremely significant after more than 300 HIV cases in children were reported due to the reuse of syringes In Taunsa and 618 new cases were reported in Islamabad between January 2025 and March 2026, Pakistan’s leading daily, Dawn reported.The report quoted a senior Pakistani health ministry official…
Islamabad, April 24 (IANS) Medical experts at the HIV Centre of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMC) have voiced concern over an increase in the number of patients, stressing that the presence of HIV cases among children is particularly alarming, also warning that cover-up of the disease and failure to undergo testing pose serious risks, with more cases being detected among men, local media reported. Programme Manager of the AIDS Control Programme, Zubair Abdullah, stated that the appar…