Government health departments, NGOs observe World Aids Day in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Federal and commonplace wellbeing divisions and NGOs are sorting out wellbeing classes and mindfulness strolls today everywhere throughout the nation regarding World Aids Day. 

The day watched each year on December 1 is gone for featuring the negative aftermath of the destructive ailment and make mindfulness among masses to watch wellbeing measures from falling prey to it. 

In Karachi, Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP) has booked to organize a HIV AIDS mindfulness stroll on at SeaView shoreline Clifton Karachi. The walk will start from Mc Donald Sea View drove by SACP s Program Manager Dr Younis Chachar. Authorities of wellbeing divisions, agents of common society, NGOs, understudies, business group and patients of the HIV AIDS will take part in the mindfulness walk. 

Facilitator Sindh AIDS Control Program Dr Sikandar Iqbal said the walk would be held with mean to make mindfulness when all is said in done open 

An expected 130 000 HIV AIDS tainted individuals are living in Pakistan out of which 56 000 are in Sindh territory The SACP had enrolled 12 979 cases over the region since 1995 out of which 12 740 were HIV positive and 239 were AIDS patients. 

The significant high hazard gatherings of HIV AIDS commonness are incorporate long separation truck drivers, female sex specialists, transgender, sedate clients, imprison prisoners, youngsters destined to contaminated parent, road kids and casualties of dangerous therapeutic methods. 

Then, Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif said that World AIDS Day is seen to bring issues to light among the general population about counteractive action from AIDS so they could stay safe from this infection and carry on with a superior and solid life. 

In his message on World AIDS Day, the Chief Minister focused on the requirement for a successful mindfulness battle to sharpen the general population about wellbeing from this sickness. 

Appropriation of careful steps were basic to stay safe from this deadly infection, he said and included that uplifting demeanors ought to be embraced for carrying on with a solid life and all conceivable prudent steps ought to be received on the grounds that it was the most ideal approach to stay safe from this lethal illness. 

Managed endeavors were expected to instruct the general population about AIDS, he included. 

The main priest said that compelling measures had been embraced for avoidance from AIDS and the Punjab government had given the office of free drugs and tests to the patients under the AIDS Control Program. 

Alongside it, blood screening had been made mandatory to guarantee safe blood transfusion in the region, he included. 

He stated: "today, we ought to emphasize our dedication that a sorted out mindfulness crusade will be propelled to mindful the general population about the careful steps required for sparing them from this sicknesses.