Pakistan Country Report: National Scaling Up Towards Universal Access

The National AIDS Control Programme/Ministry of Health estimates, using WHO/UNAIDS Epi-forecast model, the number of HIV infected individuals in Pakistan at the end of 2005 as between 70-80, 000; this would amount to a prevalence of less than 0.1%. The reported cases to the NACP are still low, however, NACP, MoH estimates that there are 70,000 estimated HIV/AIDS cases in the country. A situation that highlights the important fact that there is a slow and gradual increase in the number of reported/diagnosed cases over the years.