Why is HIV incident now started to rise in Pakistan ? , One hospital alone has 700 registered patients

[shaikh]

threadstarter's comments : In a day and age when we have increasing coeducational institutions , media glorifying hijras and other sex workers , expensive living and education with no social support for women and girls , rampant homosexuality in certain classes and regions , mobile phone groups , presidents like Musharaf and leaders promiscous like Imran , what else can you expect .? So we have it when world is seeing lessening force of it compared to 1980s .




89 HIV/AIDS patients registered in two months




Islamabad

The Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) has registered as many as 89 patients suffering from HIV/AIDS during last two months.

The total number of HIV/AIDS patients so far registered at the PIMS Centre for Treatment of AIDS, established in November 2005, has reached 715. The data collected by ‘The News’ revealed that of 715 registered patients, the number of male patients is more than 560, 120 females and 19 children.

The youngest of the registered cases is one-and-a-half years old. Not all HIV-positive patients need treatment. Only those who have full-blown AIDS are receiving antiviral treatment of AIDS at the PIMS centre.

The total number of AIDS patients so far registered at the centre is nearly 275. Most of the patients registered with the PIMS belong to NWFP, Fata, AJK and Punjab, including Jhelum and Gujrat, said PIMS Spokesman Dr. Waseem Ahmed Khawaja while talking to ‘The News’ here on Monday.

The PIMS centre, working under the National Aids Control Programme, has 11-member staff, including six doctors, a nurse, a laboratory technician, a data operator, a receptionist and a counsellor. Professor Dr. Rizwan Qazi heads the centre, which is providing free screening for AIDS, free of cost treatment to AIDS patients and free hepatitis B and pneumonia vaccines to the victims of AIDS.

Dr. Khawaja said that the centre is also providing the facility of costly diagnostic tests free of cost to HIV and AIDS patients, including PCR. “All investigations of AIDS victims are free of cost,” he said.

To a query, he said that various NGOs refer the patients of HIV/AIDS to the PIMS centre. In addition to NGOs, AIDS victims register themselves with the centre. “Private medical practitioners and doctors associated with tertiary care hospitals also refer AIDS/HIV patients to the PIMS. The media is a great source of information for new patients reaching the hospital.”

He said that most AIDS victims are suffering from the opportunist infections so they are given treatment for them. “Most patients reach the hospital with symptoms of diarrhoea, excessive weight loss, fever, oral thrush and cough. The AIDS patients are examined daily at the PIMS,” he said.

He said that approximately four to five patients are admitted per month for indoor treatment.

According to him, the causes of spread of the disease are not yet clear to many patients, as they think that AIDS is spread by direct contact or using the utensils of the patient.

“Many male patients do not want to disclose to their family members, including their wives, that they were suffering from AIDS. However in counselling sessions, patients are convinced to disclose their disease to their near and dear ones,” said Dr. Khawaja.

He said that most patients registered with the PIMS, particularly males, have a history of working in foreign countries. “Most patients are afraid of the stigma attached with the disease. Many patients have lost their jobs, their friends, relatives and their neighbours and place of living after they disclosed that they are suffering from the disease.”

Dr. Khawaja said that the stigma attached with the disease needs to be removed. The PIMS receives 20 to 25 patients of the disease every month on average, he added.

* The total number of patients registered with the hospital reaches 715

* The youngest of the registered cases is one-and-a-half years old

* Most patients belong to NWFP, Fata, AJK and Punjab

Source : https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/218751

 

[kakamuna420]

PMLN introduced the culture in kasur and rape etc. Now they are financing books to make Pakistan in to a xxx country. Shame on you Dengue brothers

 

[arafay]

pmln is heera mandi party and primary reason behind spread of aids in pakistan.

 

[Anuuge67]

The entire Nawaz family has HIV, INCLUDING CAPT SAFDAR.

 

[c'estmoi]

Shaikh chawal aa gya phir

 

[HamzaAfzal]

It is alarming signs for Pakistan that the HIV Aids patients increase with rapid speed as the number of Patients reached almost 132,000 and it is the duty of the government to provide all the basic amenities of life and take necessary measures to fight against this deadliest disease. As many Non-profit organizations in Pakistan regularly organize seminars, symposium, and workshop to raise awareness about this fatal disease.

 

[The_Choice]

 

[Steyn]

Isn't it obvious? The prostitution rings in Pakistan aren't worried of STDs. Any sex worker that is infected with AIDS can transmit it to hundreds/thousands before it is known she is infected and it takes a lot of time for HIV to become AIDS (show symptoms).

Condom isn't something that people use either.