RATODERO:Six new HIV positive cases were found at the screening camp operating at Taluka Headquarter Hospital here on Monday.
As many as 267 people were tested for HIV today. The total HIV positive cases toll has now reached 812. However, no case was found at the screening camps of Naundero and Banguldero RHUs and Pir Bux Bhutto village BHU where blood of 42 people was tested for HIV.
In this way, 28,315 people among the general population have so far been tested since 25th April out of which 812 people were detected with HIV positive out of which 668 are children and 144 are adults.
Meanwhile, members of civil society with the cooperation of Integrated Health Services (IHS) also organised a screening camp in Badah on Sunday and tested 329 people out of which 23 were detected HIV positive which include 10 children, nine women and four men.
Provincial Program Manager Sindh AIDS Control Program (SACP), Dr Sikandar Memon, told reporters that SACP did not recognize such cases because WHO approved kits were not used in the screening adding an NGO used Chinese kits which cannot be relied upon. He said the blood of the affected people would be tested again for reconfirmation.