In southern Pakistan's sindh province city,, all of a sudden outbreak of large-scale AIDS epidemic in nearly two weeks, there are 393 people to detect the infection of HIV, 80% of whom are children.
According to Pakistani media Pakistan today, sindh province, head of HIV/AIDS control plan m montmorillonite (Sikandar Memon), said local 9082 people within 14 days for a blood test, found that 312 children and 81 adults tested positive for HIV testing.
Pakistan's "news" reported that the joint United Nations AIDS program and the local medical institutions is to cooperate, to investigate the outbreak. As of 13, still did not find out the real cause of the outbreak.
Why stop AIDS epidemic broke out in lal khanna, what's the story behind?
Who is the outbreak of responsibility?
April 25, Pakistan's sindh province, Canada found that 18 children tested positive for HIV testing, the youngest just four months. Infected parents also carried out a blood test, but the result is negative.
, AFP reported, after detection of the outbreak, Canada area on a large scale screening, found that as of May 3, 90 new cases of people infected with HIV, including 65 children.
The police found a local doctors suspected tracking source, from the beginning of April with contaminated syringes to more than 150 patients, the transmission of HIV. Lal connor city police chief card Melanie, nawaz confirmed that "after we received complaints from the health authorities arrested a doctor, we are told that the doctor also infected with the AIDS virus.
Was the doctor
As the scale of a blood test, lal, more and more people are positive for HIV testing number close to 400 people. At the same time, the police in the positive action, two weeks with local arrested 17 quack doctors without medical license, the clinic and seized them.
According to Pakistan "news, sindh government officials recently to visit people living with HIV, patients complain that health authorities promised to help their treatment, but the situation is the shortage of medical equipment, they are still waiting for treatment.
Sindh MPS Haleem Adil accused the provincial government incompetence, has long been ignored local HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially of the health of children. He also pointed out that the government has so far not yet find out the causes of the HIV pandemic, the best opportunity to contain the outbreak is lost.
"Heavy disaster area" why's expedition into?
According to Pakistan's dawn, Pakistan's health ministry said in a report in August 2018, the country has about 150000 people living with HIV, 60000 of whom live in sindh province, lal connor is sindh "areas".
Pakistani provinces face for a long time, the report indicates the spread of HIV health emergency, but medical health problems are more can not get enough attention, the official did not take powerful measures to intervene and control of epidemic diseases.
The world health organization (who) infectious disease experts salah ad-din (Naseem Salahuddin) think that the reason lal connor disease so serious, largely because the region for decades has a large number of intravenous drug users who, at least 27% of people living with HIV. One of them will go to commercial Banks to sell blood, blood bank of pollution.
Lead to HIV pandemic of another important reason is that sindh many private clinic physician has no medical qualifications, they are without disinfection reused syringes and needles for the patient cause blood infection. In addition, some blood stations and medical institutions of blood transfusion environmental compliance, street barber not use tainted blade, uncontrolled commercial behavior and so on, these are the AIDS epidemic to expand the "culprit".
Salah ad-din advice, except in the source control HIV transmission in the diagnosis and treatment also needs to increase investment, at the same time pay attention to improve community health environment.
What progress has been made in the global fight against HIV/AIDS?
AIDS has long been regarded as the "terminally ill", but with the development of medicine, scientists have made some progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
3 month in the journal nature, London, England three years ago, a man living with HIV accepted carry mutations in the gene of stem cell transplantation, postoperative haven't detect HIV. According to Reuters, can confirm that this is the world's known from the second adult members of the AIDS virus. Earlier, in 2007, an American in the German capital Berlin receive similar treatment, so far did not detect HIV in the body.
London patients
The patient's treatment team responsible for London said that cases show that scientists may one day eliminate AIDS, but that doesn't mean have find a way to overcome.
Many people will ask: why HIV vaccine has yet to appear? Researchers around the world are actually for this effort.
American academic journals "immune" the year published a report in December, the United States, Scripps research institute and other institutions, researchers have developed a new type of AIDS vaccine, the monkey experiments showed that the vaccine can protect them from simian immunodeficiency virus infection, and this is very similar with human HIV virus.
After some AIDS vaccine research and development idea is to rely on to work, such as T cells of the immune system and this new vaccine, relying on an antibody, its mechanism is different, increased new ideas for prevention and control of AIDS. The researchers next plan to carry out clinical trials in humans, strive to put the new vaccine into application.