In an alarming situation 18 fresh HIV-positive cases were identified by the Sindh AIDS Control Programme during investigation in Larkana district. The new cases comprised children as young as 16 months. It is presumed that medical quackery is full back of the abrupt outburst. Larkana is considered to be one of the districts in Sindh with the highest number of HIV/AIDS patients. Entire Sindh had approximately 60,000 HIV-positive patients by August 2018. The Sindh Chief Minister declared that the Sindh government had successfully restricted the spread of HIV/AIDS through the use of strong better understanding drives. A sum of 889 new HIV-positive cases had been stated in Sindh province in only six-month time structure. The number of HIV-infected patients had increased to above 5,000 by the completion of past year in Balochistan. As reported by the NHS report, there are approximately 150,000 HIV-positive patients in Pakistan. About 75,000 are in Punjab; 15,000 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. In this context the federal and provincial governments must handle the HIV explosion as a health urgency, and act quick against medical embezzlement doubtful increase behind the rise in cases of HIV/AIDS.
The real cause for the high figures of HIV/AIDS in this country comprises of unauthorized medical professional or quacks, and mass-scale medical misconduct through used syringes which also caused the increase of other blood-borne diseases, including hepatitis B and C and non sterilized medical devices. Moreover, insecure blood transfusions, infected razor blades used by street barbers, a vagabond labour force open to trade sex.
Another 12 children have tested HIV-positive in Ratodero, a tiny town in Larkana district of Sindh. The numbers of children in the town are in grief from HIV-positive. Fifteen children had undergone laboratory tests. Twelve of them tested positive. The tests were carried out by the Peoples Health Initiative office. Several uses of syringes could be a cause of HIV infection. Cases were also reported from some villages on the suburbs of Ratodero.
Aids is one of the largest diseases that influence the global right now, as each country fight to find a treatment for the disease. This is particularly genuine in the case of developing countries like Pakistan. United Nations report discloses that girls between the age of 15 and 19 are affected with the disease that causes Aids each three minutes. Whereas Aids related deaths have decreased since 2010 in all other age groups, it continues to impact the older age group. In this context government should take an action against this fatal disease.
AIDS and HIV have not received much consideration in Pakistan due to infection rates that had not been successful to achieve. This could prove to be an error in the short run. There are several factors that could give rise to rates of the disease rising in the future. Rates of intravenous drug utilize are high in Pakistan because of the opiate addiction problem it has received owing to its nearness to Afghanistan. As reported in 2013 UNODC report on opiate and intravenous drug use in the country; 1.6 percent of Balochistan’s population uses opium, on the other hand Punjab is a place to 260,000 people who normally take narcotics illegally. Moreover there is also very little approach to contraception, and even those who live in areas with access to contraceptives scarcely use them because of awareness or religious disapproval. Again 13 children were proven positive for HIV in Larkana. Two days later, it appeared that 12 more children from the area had the disease. It is observed out of the 100,000 people in Sindh who are approved HIV positive, only 10,350 have searched medical consideration for their problem. It is anticipated that many patients simply decide to keep living their lives. This is unfortunate, taking into account that those who test positive for HIV and AIDS can live any longer, more satisfying lives with medical assistance. The saddest part is that absence education, many of these people will transfer the disease generally to their wives first.
Police arrested a doctor in Larkana on charges of widening HIV amongst his patients. The doctor is an HIV patient, was employed at a public hospital in Ratodero district of Larkana. He was truly responsible for spreading the Human Immunodeficiency Virus among his patients. The doctor was arrested after the authorities tried to find out the causes behind the spread of the virus among the inhabitants of Larkana, Sindh. The alarm had spread the district early this month when the number of HIV-positive cases rose to 39 comprising more than six fold children.
A London patient with HIV has become the second person ever to be cure of the virus after a bone marrow transplant, hopes of a treatment for Aids. Timothy Brown, the Berlin patient public, made record as the first person to be treated of HIV. Similarly the London patient had a bone marrow stem cell transplant to cure cancer. Scientists now consider him cured. The London patient stopped taking the medication 18 months ago and there is no indication of a return of HIV. The approach in itself can never be offered as a treatment for HIV infection because stem cell transplants carry a lot of danger. People with HIV can stay fit and well with a usual life period by taking a daily pill. In the true sense of the word is not a feasible large-scale strategy for a cure. However these new results reiterate belief that there exists a proof of idea that HIV is curable. Although millions of people are now stable and well on antiretroviral drugs. That was not the solution to the Aids epidemic long-term. It is significant as there are about 36 million- peculiar people with HIV worldwide.