HEALTH-PAKISTAN-HIV

A Pakistani Thalassaemia patient receives blood at a treatment center in Peshawar on December 4, 2014. Ten Pakistani children, from the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore, have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood transfusions, officials said, in a "shocking" case highlighting the abysmal state of blood screening in the country. Dr Yasmin Rashid, secretary general of the Thalassaemia Federation of Pakistan,said that it was hard to pinpoint at this stage which blood banks were the culprits. AFP PHOTO/A MAJEED (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
A Pakistani Thalassaemia patient receives blood at a treatment center in Peshawar on December 4, 2014. Ten Pakistani children, from the cities of Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore, have been infected with HIV after receiving tainted blood transfusions, officials said, in a "shocking" case highlighting the abysmal state of blood screening in the country. Dr Yasmin Rashid, secretary general of the Thalassaemia Federation of Pakistan,said that it was hard to pinpoint at this stage which blood banks were the culprits. AFP PHOTO/A MAJEED (Photo by Abdul MAJEED / AFP) (Photo by ABDUL MAJEED/AFP via Getty Images)
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