Official data show that Pakistan’s federal territories recorded around 300 new HIV cases between July and December 2025, pushing the total registered caseload close to 4,800 by the end of the year, with Islamabad accounting for the majority.
Officials at the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination said the Islamabad Capital Territory continues to report most HIV cases from the federal region, including patients linked to Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan.
On average, authorities record about 50 new HIV cases each month across these areas, with more than 80 percent originating from Islamabad. According to federal HIV registration data updated through December 31, 2025, a total of 4,756 people are registered as living with HIV in the federal system.
This includes the additional 300 cases reported in the last six months of the year. The registered cases comprise 3,432 adult men, 805 adult women, 422 transgender persons, 67 male children, and 30 female children.
Health officials said a significant proportion of newly detected cases in Islamabad involve young people, with nearly 60 percent of recent cases falling in younger age groups.
Officials said transmission remains highest among men who have sex with men, followed by infections linked to unsafe medical practices, including syringe reuse and procedures carried out at informal clinics. They also cited risky sexual behavior associated with substance use as a contributing factor in the capital.
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Officials said transmission remains highest among men who have sex with men, followed by infections linked to unsafe medical practices, including syringe reuse and procedures carried out at informal clinics. They also cited risky sexual behavior associated with substance use as a contributing factor in the capital.”
Looks serious and needs to be seen seriously because the said findings have much more unsaid and untold.If the patients have been coming on such grounds they are the threat to the society and they do not need the way out of this issue that has been usually proposed by the UN AIDS AUTHORITIES.
Gays, sexual promiscuous and druggies.
Bluetoothing, and hot spotting, sharing the needle, the blood, the virus, the ultimate kinship of Urbanite druggies.
Any preventable risk factors
Any social intervention worth trying?
Legal Forced isolation
Any thing short of Hitler’s solution !!
This is a deadly chain