Pakistan’s HIV wake-up call: The cost of waiting until 2030 — Part I
AI-generated While the global HIV epidemic is declining, Pakistan is moving in the opposite direction. Four decades after the first locally acquired infections were documented, the country faces a widening gap between what it knows about the epidemic and what it is doing to contain it By Prof Dr Muhammad Rafiq Khanani Pakistan has lived with HIV (Human immunodeficiency virus) for almost four decades. Yet the country’s present challenge is no longer simply to understand how the virus spreads. It is to confront why, despite years of surveillance, treatment programmes and accumulated evidence, transmission continues to expand. The first locally acquired HIV infections were docu...
