KARACHI: Karachi is now classified into concentrated phase of HIV epidemic where the overall prevalence among people who inject drugs is more than 48%, officials said on Thursday, adding that other.
KARACHI: At a time when Pakistan is witnessing a staggering increase in the number of new HIV infections, Sindh became the first province to officially launch an oral medicine program known as.
A recently published report by the UNAIDS, a joint UN programme on HIV/AIDS, has revealed that the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections are spreading rapidly in Pakistan as around 25,000 people in the country contracted the virus in 2020. This means 84 per cent increase in HIV patients. Majority of the people infected are drug users who inject themselves. There are over 240,000 people living with HIV in Pakistan. Of these, 160,000 are men and around 38,000 women. The number of registered AIDS patients in the country is around 46,912. The data shows that around 1,600 who were infected with HIV in 2020 were under the age of 15. The report said that around 8,200 people i.