Letter to the Editor: HIV/AIDS in Pakistan — translating facts to actions

Madam, over the last three decades, human immunodeficiency virus/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) has evolved from an assortment of case-reports to a global epidemic. The first reports of HIV in Pakistan in 1987 implicated contaminated blood transfusions. Thereafter, HIV was predominantly reported in expatriates from other countries such as the Gulf States. Estimates from UNAIDS placed the number of HIV cases in Pakistan at 85,000 in 2005.