On World AIDS Day, PMA calls for urgent reset of the country’s failing HIV control system
Says Pakistan cannot combat the epidemic without reliable data, revived initiatives, and strict enforcement of blood-safety standards. IV Report KARACHI: Appearing not satisfied with the existing official measures aimed at checking the persisting spread of HIV infections across the country, the Pakistan Medical Association has called for a complete overhauling of the official hubs of the diseases (HIV) control system, as the citizens celebrated World AIDS Day once again in the absence of any confirmed national consolidated status report of the disease giving HIV patient number, rates of new infections, people receiving the due treatment and other pertaining achievements, if any. Marking World AIDS Day under the global theme “Overcoming Disruption, Transforming the AIDS Response,” the PMA said in a statement issued by its Secretary General, Dr Abdul Ghafoor Shoro, that the country’s HIV emergency was being compounded by policy inertia, worsening inequalities in care, and the failu...