HIV Crisis: WHO team to arrive Pakistan on May 28.

ISLAMABAD -- The World Health Organization (WHO) has accepted a request from Pakistan for assistance in the ongoing HIV crisis in Larkana, Sindh. Pakistan had sought help from the WHO in the HIV epidemic. The WHO has decided to send a team of experts to Pakistan and also provide HIV diagnostic kits to the country. A 10-member team of WHO experts will land in Karachi on May 28, sources said. Special Assistant to Prime Minister for National Health Dr Zafar Mirza had written a letter to the WHO and requested for immediately sending a team of experts to Pakistan to visit the areas affected by the HIV epidemic. Pakistan had also requested the world health body to provide diagnostic kits for HIV Aids. The prime minister's aide in his letter asked the WHO to immediately provide 50,000 HIV diagnostic...