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Pakistanis at higher risk of HIV epidemic
Jamila Achakzai
Friday, August 26, 2011
Islamabad: Rates of HIV have increased in Pakistan?s general population as the virus has spread beyond at-risk groups to women and their children, according to an international study.
Scientists at Aga Khan University and Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, led the study, whose findings are published by the journal PloS One Researchers raised concern that the transmission across subgroups into Pakistan?s general population might serve as indication that the virus might be spreading into populations within neighbouring Afghanistan.
They said in the study that the technique used to understand the forces that drove the HIV epidemic in Pakistan could also help healthcare professionals understand and intervene in other deadly disease outbreaks wherever they occur...
Pakistanis at higher risk of HIV epidemic
Jamila Achakzai
Friday, August 26, 2011
Islamabad: Rates of HIV have increased in Pakistan?s general population as the virus has spread beyond at-risk groups to women and their children, according to an international study.
Scientists at Aga Khan University and Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, led the study, whose findings are published by the journal PloS One Researchers raised concern that the transmission across subgroups into Pakistan?s general population might serve as indication that the virus might be spreading into populations within neighbouring Afghanistan.
They said in the study that the technique used to understand the forces that drove the HIV epidemic in Pakistan could also help healthcare professionals understand and intervene in other deadly disease outbreaks wherever they occur...