10 children from 3 different provinces contract HIV suspiciously under the US-puppet Pakistani regime

Ten Pakistani children have contracted HIV after receiving contaminated blood, officials say.

The children, aged five to 16, come from the Pakistani cities of Rawalpindi, Lahore and the capital, Islamabad, Dr. Yasmin Rashid, secretary general of the Thalassemia Federation of Pakistan, confirmed on Thursday.

However, officials have yet to pinpoint which blood banks were the culprits, she said.

The children all suffer from the blood disorder, thalassemia, which requires patients to undergo regular blood transfusions.

The number of cases is expected to rise as more thalassemia patients undergo testing, said Javed Akram, vice chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences.

“Somebody struggled with a lifelong disease and you gave them another lifelong disease…. The people responsible should be punished and punished very severely,” Akram said.

Pakistan’s implementation of blood screening remains abysmal despite federal and provincial acts of parliament in place.

Some transfusion centers screen for Hepatitis B and C, but do not normally test for HIV, said Rashid.

HIV has a low prevalence in Pakistan, with UNAIDS estimating that less than 0.05 percent of the general population is infected.

HIV infection results in progressive deterioration of the immune system, leading to acquired immuneodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).