from: https://www.who.int/csr/don/03-july-2019-hiv-cases-pakistan/en/
WHO risk assessment
Pakistan is one of the countries in the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region where new HIV infections are increasing at an alarming level since 1987. The current HIV epidemic in Pakistan is defined as a concentrated epidemic. Although the overall prevalence is still less than 1% in the adult population, the latest estimate (2017) of people living with HIV (PLHIV) was 150,0002 . In 2018, 21,000 new PLHIV cases were recorded.
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https://www.unaids.org/en/regionscountries/countries/pakistan
In Pakistan in 2018:
- 160 000 people were living with HIV.
- HIV incidence—the number of new HIV infections among a susceptible population during a certain time—among all people of all ages was 0.11%.
- HIV prevalence—the percentage of people living with HIV—among adults (15–49 years) was 0.1%.
- 22 000 people were newly infected with HIV.
- 6400 people died from an AIDS-related illness.
There has been a 369% increase in the number of AIDS-related deaths since 2010, from 1400 deaths to 6400 deaths. The number of new HIV infections has also risen, from 14 000 to 22 000 in the same period.
The 90–90–90 targets envision that, by 2020, 90% of people living with HIV will know their HIV status, 90% of people who know their HIV-positive status will be accessing treatment and 90% of people on treatment will have suppressed viral loads. In terms of all people living with HIV, reaching the 90–90–90 targets means that 81% of all people living with HIV are on treatment and 73% of all people living with HIV are virally suppressed. In 2018 in Pakistan:
- 14% of people living with HIV knew their status.
- 10% of people living with HIV were on treatment.
Of all adults aged 15 years and over living with HIV, 10% were on treatment, while 11% of children aged 0–14 years living with HIV were on treatment.
Ten per cent of pregnant women living with HIV accessed antiretroviral medicine to prevent transmission of the virus to their baby. Early infant diagnosis―the percentage of HIV-exposed infants tested for HIV before eight weeks of age―stood at 2% in 2018.
Of the 160 000 adults living with HIV, 48 000 (30.71%) were women. New HIV infections among young women aged 15–24 years were less those among young men: 1800 new infections among young women, compared to 2600 among young men. HIV treatment was lower among women than men, with 7% of adult women living with HIV on treatment, compared to 11% of adult men.
Same-sex sexual relations are illegal in Pakistan.
Only 4.29% of women and men 15–24 years old correctly identified ways of preventing the sexual transmission of HIV.
In 2017, the percentage of people living with HIV and tuberculosis who were being treated for both diseases was 1.3%, up from 0.9% in 2015.
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