NEWS Why Are So Many Kids In Pakistan Testing Positive for HIV?

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Xaawotaako

Motivation, have you read the article? I’m guessing not. The problem cited in the article is a medical system that is failing in every way. Unfortunately, this can happen in any poor country, including Somalia. The lack of education mixed with inadequate healthcare. The reason there was an outbreak is because of reusing dirty needles. What all the kids infected had in common was, they all got needle treatments. I’m guessing vaccinations. It was clear that those who got the treatments where all infected. Go to the end of the article, last 4 paragraphs. Very sad situation and the government tried to cover it up rather than try to find out what was happening. Also, they have messed up medical system where there are private clinics and doctors, pharmacists, homeopaths, naturopaths and pharmacists trying to fill the void, however they are not properly trained.
 
Empress of Hawiye

Empress of Hawiye

CUSHITIC
Vaccination test is BULLSHIT this is just an excuse to kill of innocent foreign children.
The same vaccination test was tooken by this African president and put in a banana guess what it said "positive" .
 
KillStreakIsCool

KillStreakIsCool

Is there any good news that comes from that country? Aside from military technology, their country is falling apart at the seams. They have the worst ethnic cultures among Muslims.
 
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kloro

Xaawotaako said:
Motivation, have you read the article? I’m guessing not. The problem cited in the article is a medical system that is failing in every way. Unfortunately, this can happen in any poor country, including Somalia. The lack of education mixed with inadequate healthcare. The reason there was an outbreak is because of reusing dirty needles. What all the kids infected had in common was, they all got needle treatments. I’m guessing vaccinations. It was clear that those who got the treatments where all infected. Go to the end of the article, last 4 paragraphs. Very sad situation and the government tried to cover it up rather than try to find out what was happening. Also, they have messed up medical system where there are private clinics and doctors, pharmacists, homeopaths, naturopaths and pharmacists trying to fill the void, however they are not properly trained.
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In Gujrat district, the infection, initially discovered when 88 out of 246 (36%) individuals tested positive in an HIV screening camp, is believed to have been endemic for over a decade, silently transmitting among the residents of the Jalalpur Jattan village. Of the individuals interviewed from this village, only 36% and 34% were aware that HIV transmission could occur by, respectively, sexual contact and blood transfusion. Such lack of awareness most likely led to the recently reported increase in HIV prevalence in the same village—750 positive cases in 2018.​
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Despite efforts made to identify the causes of transmission through contact tracing,
only indirect indications were found for transmission through contaminated needles.​
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While some evidence of sexual transmission was there, an overwhelming number of the study participants reported use of injectable medicine for treatment of illness (96%) and invasive surgical (26%)/dental (40%) procedures. Use of unsafe injection practice is speculated to be a major cause of this endemic.​
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Epidemic in the village of Kot Imrana, Sargodha, is relatively new. First reported in 2018 with a prevalence rate of 1.3%, the epidemic grew rapidly, reaching 13% in 2019.​
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Although some evidence of sexual transmission was found, interviews from patients implicated the origin of transmission to be reuse of contaminated needles by a quack who died from AIDS in 2018. As many as 5000 quacks are reported to be practising in the district of Sargodha. The epidemic is clearly growing at an alarming rate; 50 other villages in the vicinity of Sargodha are speculated to be hot spots of HIV infection, with malpractice by quacks being a major threat.​
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