HIV outbreaks in Pakistan
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Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan
We conducted this study to obtain a comprehensive picture of molecular epidemiology of HIV-1 in three neighboring countries, i.e. Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan as a basis for discussing possible hypothesis regarding between-country virus transmission. Our results showed that subtype composition differs between these countries with more variation in Pakistan than Iran and Afghanistan. The CRF3...
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Pakistan is an Islamic Republic in South-Central Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea (30 00 N, 70 00 E). It is situated between HIV/AIDS high risk countries, India on the east, China in the north, and Afghanistan on the west. Its only low risk neighbor is Iran. The estimated population of Pakistan is 162,419,946, with an annual population growth rate of 2.03% (July 2005). The population is young, t...
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Pakistan still has a window of opportunity to act decisively to prevent the spread of HIV. Although the estimated HIV burden is still low— around 0.1 percent of the adult population—the country is facing a concentrated epidemic among injecting drug users (IDUs) with HIV prevalence above 5 percent among IDUs in three of the four provinces. Given linkages between IDUs and other high-risk populati...
متن کاملHIV/AIDS in Pakistan
Pakistan still has a window of opportunity to act decisively to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. Although the estimated HIV/AIDS burden is still low—around 0.1 percent of the adult population there has been an outbreak of HIV among injecting drug users in Sindh. Without vigorous and sustained action, Pakistan runs the risk of experiencing the rapid increase in HIV/AIDS among vulnerable groups se...
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Pakistan's HIV epidemic is fully established and expanding among injection drug users (IDUs) of whom 20% are infected with HIV. Nascent epidemics are seen in some cities among Male sex workers and transgenders who form sexual contacts of IDUs. With involvement of sex workers, Pakistan appears to be following the "Asian Epidemic Model". On the other hand, nearly all patients in HIV clinics are e...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet HIV
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2352-3018
DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(19)30179-1