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05-26-2019 08:07 PM |
600+ people mostly kids infected with HIV in Pakistan
Over 600 people test HIV positive in Pakistan city
"Pakistan said on Sunday over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in the southern Sindh province.
Concern grew after hundreds of people were allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe in Rato Dero city and surrounding villages of Larkana district.
"Some 681 people, of which 537 were children from two to 12 years of age, had been tested positive for HIV until yesterday in Rato Dero," special health advisor Zafar Mirza told a press conference in Islamabad.
He said 21,375 people had been screened in Rato Dero, adding that the increase in the number of patients testing positive for HIV was "a matter of grave concern" for the government."
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