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Pakistan Faces HIV/AIDS Spreading From High-Risk Groups To General Population
"For a long time, perceptions of Pakistan as a conservative Muslim country encouraged a belief that HIV/AIDS incidence would be non-existent or very low," but "with the number of HIV cases rising, the government finally included it in its 2009 national health policy," BBC News reports. However, the full extent of the disease "is still not widely acknowledged," and "experts say the epidemic is not being properly tackled," the article states.
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