<http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportID=72164>:

"RAWALPINDI , 16 May 2007 (IRIN) - 'This is a disease about dirty
people doing dirty things,' remarked Mohammad Sohail, 18, a mechanic,
displaying his limited knowledge of HIV as he repaired a car outside
the bustling Pir Wadhai bus station, one of the largest in the city of
Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, capital of Pakistan.

His supervisor, Sayid Ramazan, 26, and the father of two, knew even
less. 'I never heard of it,' he said, scratching his head.

Such responses are not unusual in Punjab Province, where nearly 60
percent of the country's 158 million inhabitants live, but they
highlight a serious challenge in the national response to HIV/AIDS."

According to the article 3,700 cases of HIV have been reported in
Pakistan, but the WHO and UNAIDS believe there is currently 200,000
people living with HIV in the country.  However 200,000 is at the top
end of UNAIDS' estimate in its 2006 report.  Its real estimate is
85,000, which is about 0.06% of the population.

How many people does UNAIDS estimate are HIV+ in the USA?  1,200,000,
that's 0.4% of the population.

So, how does that work?  Why does a county as developed as the US, and
where presumably there's a great deal of understanding about the
HIV=AIDS=Death concept, have six times as many HIV cases as Pakistan?

Given the findings of a Punjab survey you'd expect HIV to be running
rife in Pakistan:

"Of 960 people surveyed, 87% of respondents had heard of HIV/AIDS
93.5% of the 449 male respondents and 82.9% of the 395 female
respondents had heard about HIV/AIDS

Awareness of other transmission routes were: unsafe sex, 26%; used
needles, 23%; and blood transfusions, 6%

Only 4% understood that using condoms can be an effective means to
prevent infection

62% of respondents had never heard about STDs (sexually transmitted
diseases)

75% of respondents thought that extra-marital sex was prevalent in
Pakistani society"