Tag: #AIDS
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Punjab Launches Free AIDS Screening and Treatment Programme
LAHORE (ProPakistani) — January 13, 2026: The Punjab government has launched a province-wide initiative to provide free AIDS screening, diagnostic testing, and complete treatment through dedicated clinics established at district and tehsil levels. Key Developments Punjab government has launched a province-wide free AIDS screening and treatment programme. Special AIDS clinics have been activated at district and…
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The Common Man’s Plight
The egregious negligence of the administrative staff at Nishtar Hospital has exposed dialysis patients to the devastating risk of contracting HIV a revelation as shocking as it is alarming. This crisis demands immediate and decisive intervention from the highest levels of authority. Reports indicate that one unsuspecting patient, who merely sought a routine dialysis procedure,…
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Food and Drug Administration approves first HIV injection
United States: The United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the world’s first HIV injection, scientists are calling it a game-changer. According to the US Food and Drug Administration website, the purpose of the injectable treatment is to ensure a “pre-exposure HIV prevention”. It is hoped that the administration of the drug…
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Global Funds Move to Self-Monitor Funds is Lack of Trust on Imran: Maryam Aurangzeb
Maryam Aurangzeb says that the Global Funds move to self-monitor its funds is a symbol of a lack of trust in Imran Khan.
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AIDS Patients Surpass 163,000 in the Country: NA told
The NA has been told that AIDS patients in the country have surpassed 163,000.
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AIDS death toll rises in Pakistan
The United Nations AIDS Control Program (UNAIDS) has said that the number of AIDS-related deaths in Pakistan is on the rise as poor diagnosis and poor treatment conditions miss out on opportunities to prevent deaths and further spread. According to the media reports, the Global AIDS Update 2020 published on Tuesday, UNAIDS says that HIV…
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America’s policy to De-populate the Third World
Lahore, 18th May: It is being claimed that the United States has a wicked policy and national interest to de-populate the third world countries. Louis Farrakhan Sr. formerly known as Louis X, is an American minister and political activist. He is the leader of the Nation of Islam (NOI), an organization that the Southern Poverty…
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New York’s ‘island of the dead’ to welcome more of the living
New York, Dec 5 (AFP/APP): A once off-limits, eroding island in New York where more than a million people are buried in unmarked mass graves dug by prisoners is about to become more accessible. For 150 years, unclaimed bodies, the poor, still-born children and AIDS victims have been laid to rest on the mile-long Hart…
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Only half of children living with HIV have access to life-saving treatment – UNICEF
ISLAMABAD, Nov 30 (APP): Some 320 children and adolescents died every day from AIDS-related causes in 2018, says UNICEF’s annual statistical update on children, HIV and AIDS, released ahead of the World AIDS Day – Sunday, 1 December 2019. Low access to anti-retroviral treatment, in addition to limited prevention efforts, is a leading cause for…
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Drug overdoses driving down US life expectancy: health officials
Washington, Oct 30 (AFP/APP): Drug overdoses have driven the first significant reduction in US life expectancy since the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, an official report published Wednesday showed. Americans have lost almost four months of longevity since 2014, the report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. “This is the first…