Order of Islamabad Healthcare Authority to provide health facilities to HIV patients

Order of Islamabad Healthcare Authority to provide health facilities to HIV patients

File photo The Islamabad Healthcare Authority has written to all hospitals in the city and ordered them to provide health facilities to HIV patients. The healthcare authority has said that not all private hospitals are treating HIV positive patients, all hospitals should provide treatment to HIV patients like other patients. In the letter, the healthcare…

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Islamabad, non-treatment of HIV infected people in private hospitals revealed

Islamabad, non-treatment of HIV infected people in private hospitals revealed

It has been revealed that private hospitals in Islamabad are not treating HIV infected people. Health experts say that only the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, is the last refuge for HIV-infected people, where they are being treated. HIV positive patients from Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Gilgit Baltistan, Azad Kashmir are also forced to come…

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‘Fully financing’ HIV response in Africa will save millions of lives: UNAIDS

‘Fully financing’ HIV response in Africa will save millions of lives: UNAIDS

The report based on research by the Economist Impact partnership across 13 African countries, A Triple Dividend: The health, social and economic gains from financing the HIV response in Africa, estimates that millions of lives will also be saved if funding is forthcoming. Not only would there be between 40 and 90 per cent fewer new…

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