The Association of People Living with HIV (APLHIV) Pakistan is a nationwide network of HIV community in Pakistan established in response to absence of an appropriate platform for the HIV community to raise their issues. Since its inception the APLHIV has emerged as a strong agency for Research, Advocacy, and Community based Monitoring and as [...]
The World AIDS Day is being observed today as an opportunity to harness the power of social change and close the access gap between people who have access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support services and people who are being left behind by empowering them. The WHO's Eastern Mediterranean Region comprising of 22 countries [...]
By Ms. Fahmida Iqbal Khan, Community Mobilization and Networking Advisor, UNAIDS Country Office for Pakistan & Afghanistan Today when am penning down this article, it gives me panic attacks that we are left with only 1.53 years to achieve Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Government of Pakistan has adopted 16 targets and 41 indicators. Time series [...]
Five groups of people are driving the global HIV epidemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says in its new guidelines. Men who have sex with men, sex workers, injection-drug users, transgender people, and people in prisons are among the groups targeted for prevention and treatment efforts. HIV rates are "going down all over the world, with the [...]
A new report by UNAIDS shows that 19 million of the 35 million people living with HIV globally do not know their HIV-positive status. "Whether you live or die should not depend on access to an HIV test," said Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS. "Smarter scale-up is needed to close the gap between people who know [...]
Dr. Muhammad Najeeb Durrani, Epidemiologist, District Surveillance Coordinator, District TB Coordinator (DTC), In-charge Dengue Fever Surveillance Cell, Islamabad Although the Government of Pakistan’s National TB Control Program through its TB DOTS strategy has revolutionized the TB treatment in the country and brought down the incidence and the prevalence of disease thereby improving the treatment indicators; [...]
By Fahmida Iqbal Khan, Community Mobilization & Networking Advisor UNAIDS Country Office for Pakistan and Afghanistan The global literature and research shows that relationship between Violence against Women (VAW) and HIV risk is incontestable, multifaceted, and involves numerous corridors. Violence against women places women and girls at increased risk of HIV both through direct risk [...]
By Muhammad Fareed UNAIDS - Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS and National AIDS Control Program (NACP) regards partnerships with corporate entities as key partners and adopts a range of additional strategies for engaging with employers’ organizations, business coalitions, public and private sector enterprises, foundations, etc. in order to enhance private sector engagement in [...]
A new UN report warns the HIV epidemic in Asia and the Pacific is at a pivotal juncture with little progress in reducing new infections. AIDS researchers and activists are calling for more political will by governments to address related issues. The report, launched by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, says 4.9 million people are living [...]
Lack of appropriate manpower is one of the major constraints in the development and strengthening of blood transfusion services in Pakistan. Appropriate trainings require planning of training programmes and refresher courses for the staff working in the blood banks. To fulfill this gap, the World Health Organization and Safe Blood Transfusion Programme recently organized a [...]
The key to future HIV treatment could be hidden right in our own genes. Everyone who becomes infected deploys defense strategies, and some even manage to hold the virus at bay without any therapy at all. This immune system struggle leaves its mark within the pathogen itself - genetic mutations that indicate how the virus reacted to [...]
Progress in TB control can be substantially accelerated by addressing these challenges Tuberculosis (TB) treatment has saved the lives of more than 22 million people, according to the WHO "Global tuberculosis report 2013" published today. The report also reveals that the number of people ill with TB fell in 2012 to 8.6 million, with global [...]
By Muhammad Fareed The global HIV and AIDS pandemic is taking a catastrophic toll on women and girls. The number of HIV infections among women and girls has risen in every region in recent years, and in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls constitute nearly 60 percent of those living with HIV. In some countries, the [...]
At the launch of the "World health report 2013: Research for universal health coverage", WHO today called on countries to continue investing in local research in order to develop a system of universal health coverage tailored to each individual country’s situation. With universal health coverage, countries can help ensure that citizens obtain the health services [...]
Dow University of Health Sciences organized a Seminar on Transfusion Medicine Update at its Arag auditorium of Dow Medical College. The aim of the Seminar was to discussed blood transfusion and its related problems in Pakistan and to mobilize the voluntary blood donation. It was attended by professors, senior faculty members, doctors, para-medical staff as [...]
