Pakistan Fast Facts 2014

Pakistan has followed the epidemic pattern typically seen elsewhere in Asia, i.e., shifting from low HIV prevalence to high prevalence concentrated among certain key populations at higher risk. The first indigenous HV case was detected in 1987, more cases started being reported in the 1990s (mostly among returning work migrants and their families), and then suddenly in 2003 high levels of HIV were detected among people who inject drugs in Karachi (23%) and Larkana (9.7%) in Sindh.