These kinda reports provide no perspective. What are we comparing it to, and is it really a huge problem?
For example, lets say in the US, there are 1 million AIDS patients, out of a population of, say, 370 million. That makes it 0.27%. If in comparison, Pakistan has 10,000 AIDS patients (I am just pulling a number) out of a population of 170 million, that makes it 0.00625%.
Now, if this number increases to 20,000, yeah, it has DOUBLED, but is it really that huge an issue for the large part of our population? Its still a miniscule percentage of people.
I am not saying, Pakistan should not effectively tackle this problem and provide awareness and treatment to affectees. Its all important. We will kid ourselves if we believe that many people in our country do not have illicit sexual relationships, but these kinds of news stories should provide some perspective and hard numbers rather than just dramatizing the whole thing by using words like "reaching alarming proportions", even if the actual number remains relatively miniscule. What is the actual number of HIV and AIDS patients in Pakistan, relative to our population?
your denying won't make this go away. Cases in the US are atleast reported and are hence more accuarate number. Third world countries don't have that luxurious advantage. The number in Pakistan is probably atleast 4 times as much, if anything. Homosexuality is huge "problem" in the nwfp...