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Pakistan said yesterday over 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a village in southern Sindh province.

Concern grew after hundreds of people were allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe in Rato Dero and surrounding villages of Larkana district. 鈥淪ome 681 people, of which 537 were children from 2 to 12 years of age, had been tested positive for HIV until yesterday (Saturday) in Rato Dero village,鈥 special health advisor Zafar Mirza told a press conference in Islamabad. He said 21,375 people had been screened in Rato Dero, adding 鈥渢he increase in the number of patients being tested positive for HIV is a matter of grave concern for the government.鈥


 

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