‘Youngsters highly vulnerable to HIV risk’

By Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: Experts at an awareness session on HIV/Aids on Wednesday said the people aged 25 years or less constituted a majority of the population which was vulnerable to the fatal illness. “In fact, people aged 25 or less make 63 per cent of the population,” said by Dr Aftab Ahmed of the…

Pakistan’s shunned HIV victims fight pariah status

by Hasan Mansoor KARACHI, Dec 1, 2011 (AFP) – Shunned by their families and society, Rubina and Iqbal are a Pakistani couple who have struggled for years to win their lives back and spread a message of respect for fellow victims of HIV/AIDS. Rubina Naz, 33, one of 12 children born to a labourer, was…