More than 600, mostly children, test positive for HIV in Pakistan, after doctor allegedly uses contaminated syringe

Pakistan said on Sunday 600 people, most of them children, had tested HIV positive in a city in southern Sindh province.

Concerns grew after hundreds of people were allegedly infected by a doctor using a contaminated syringe in Rato Dero city and surrounding villages of Larkana district.

"Some 681 people, of which 537 were children from two to 12 years of age, had been tested positive for HIV until yesterday in Rato Dero," special health adviser Zafar Mirza said at a press conference in Islamabad.

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