Program Introduction:

The Punjab AIDS Control Program was established in 1998 to prevent and contain HIV transmissions and improve the health and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in Punjab. The Program’s larger goal is to keep the HIV/AIDS epidemic at the current low level (below 0.1%) among general adult population by following the international guidelines of UNAIDS, WHO and UNICEF.

The prime focus of the Program is on HIV prevention among key population namely Injecting Drug Users (IDUs), Female Sex Workers (FSWs), Male / Transgender Sex Workers (MSWs / TRSWs) and Men having Sex with Men (MSMs) and its spill over in general population. The Program provides free testing, treatment and counseling services to HIV/AIDs patients and high risk groups. 

Program Objectives

1.     Achieve the global UNAIDS HIV goals of 95-95-95. This means that 95% of people living with HIV know their status; of whom 95% are on treatment; of whom 95% are virally suppressed (95-95-95).

2.     Control or reverse the spread of HIV among the high risk and vulnerable groups and to keep the epidemic from establishing among the bridging groups and the general population

3.     Create awareness in general public / high risk groups about modes of HIV/AIDS. Transmission and advocate the policy/ decision makers and opinion leaders, about the threat of HIV/AIDS to garner enhanced support and commitment to assign it a priority area.

4.     Establish an effective, functional, comprehensive and sustainable multi-sectoral mechanism to response HIV/AIDS with the involvement of stakeholders from government departments, development partners, NGOs, CBOs, civil society, religious leaders, PLHIV etc.

5.     Provide free of cost diagnostic, and treatment services to high risk groups and poor patients by providing state of the art diagnostic referral and district services laboratory services   along with required  amount of medicine for HIV patients.

6.     Design and develop integration mechanism among the communicable disease control programs (TB, Hepatitis, etc.) for avoiding duplication of inputs such as diagnostic services.

7.     Create an enabling environment so that People Living with HIV can access medical and social services without stigma or discrimination.

8.     Build the capacity of PACP and health professionals for in public and private sector 

Program Initiatives: 

The PACP started multiple initiatives to reach out to High Risk Groups that are: 

1. The Program sets up camps at strategic sites and tests bus and truck drivers for Hep B, Hep C, Syphilis and HIV/AIDS  with free vaccination for Hep B and free treatment for Hep C 
2. The Program screens Jail inmates in Punjab continuously. The Program is also providing treatment to those testing positive for Hep C and HIV. The Program has provided mass vaccination for Hep B  
3. Punjab’s first ever BSL-3 Lab was established at PACP Complex. The state-of-the-art BSL-3 Level Advanced Diagnostics Laboratory provides complete package of services and is equipped with latest flowcytometry machine, gene expert, CD4 Count machine and has the capacity to perform viral genotyping or HIV Resistance testing for initiating or switching ART. 
4. The Program tests Transgenders, 300 Female Sex Workers/family members and is providing free treatment services to Injecting Drug Users 
5. The PACP has started Pakistan’s first ever exclusive trans genders clinic was at Fountain House 
6. The Program made coordinated efforts for introduction of Infection Control measures in Punjab. Coordinated efforts were made to introduce Hospital Waste Management protocols as per international standards
7. The PACP initiated crackdown against quackery in areas having HIV outbreaks in Chiniot and Sargodha in 2018. A province-wise massive operation against quackery was initiated and efforts were made to stop the re-use of syringes.

Program Components:

Organogram

 

Working Mechanism:

 

Services:

Punjab AIDS Control Program is providing the following services. All of these services are provided FREE of COST.

1. Voluntary Confidential Counselling and Testing (VCCT)
2. Rapid Screening of HIV/AIDS and Syphilis (in accordance with WHO guidelines)
3. Treatment and Medication
4. Prevention of Parent To Child Transmissions (PPTCT)
5. Pediatric HIV Treatment
6. Advance Diagnostic Tests: PCR, CD4 and Eliza
7. Follow Up

 

Centers:

The program has 45 centers located in 36 districts of Punjab that are providing free of cost counselling, diagnostic and treatment services. 

Centers are open Monday to Saturday, 8am till 2pm.

List of Centers:

List of Centers of Punjab AIDS Control Program
Sr. No.	District	Hospital	Room No.	Contact No.
1	Attock	DHQ Hospital	Room 61-62	057-9316511
2	Bahawalnagar	DHQ Hospital	Inside Filter Clinic, Ground Floor, OPD	063-9240266
3	Bahawalpur	DHQ Hospital	Room No.6, 1st Floor, Medical OPD	062-9330193
4	Bhakkar	DHQ Hospital	Room No.42, Medical Ward, 1st Floor, OPD	0304-1526112
5	Chakwal	DHQ Hospital	Room No 73-74, OPD	0305-7876898
6	Chiniot	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 31, 1st Floor, New OPD Block	047-9210158
7	Dera Ghazi Khan	DHQ Hospital	Yousaf Medical Block, 1st Floor	064-9330227
8	Faisalabad	Allied Hospital	Room No.41, OPD	041-9330750
9	Gujranwala	DHQ Hospital	TB Ward (near health commission room)	055-9330300
10	Gujrat	Major Shabir Sharif Shaheed Hospital	Room No. 17, Ground Floor, OPD	0332-8344020
11	Gujrat	Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital	Ground Floor, Emergency Ward, DHQ Hospital	053-9260513
12	Gujrat	Bashiran Begum Welfare Trust Hospital	Jalalpur Jattan	0331-2895779
13	Hafizabad	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 51, Gynae Ward, 1st Floor	0323-5985610
14	Jhang	DHQ Hospital	Near Physiotherapy Department, Ground Floor	047-9200050
15	Jhelum	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 32	0544-933012
16	Khanewal	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 15, Near Corona Vaccination Center	0301-5859387
17	Khushab	DHQ Hospital	Room No.3, PKLI Building, Ground Floor	0454-920292
18	Lahore	Services Hospital	Room No. 8, Medical Unit-4, 2nd Floor	042-99203570
19	Lahore	Mayo Hospital	Room No.6, Ground Floor, OPD	042-99213582
20	Lahore	Jinnah Hospital	Room No.34, Ground Floor, OPD	042-99231461
21	Lahore	Said Mitha Hospital	Room No.14, 1st Floor, Said Mitha Hospital	042-99333596
22	Lahore	Fountain House	Khawaja Sira Unit	042-99213259
23	Layyah	DHQ Hospital	Room No.230, Citizen Vaccination Center	0606-920345
24	Lodhran	DHQ Hospital	Old Nursing Room in PKLI Building	0340-9614914
25	Mandi Bahauddin	DHQ Hospital	Room No.13, 1st Floor, OPD	0334-4274522
26	Mianwali	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 4 Old OPD, Building	045-9920286
27	Multan	Civil Hospital	Room No.26 & Room No.28, OPD	061-9200187
28	Muzaffargarh	DHQ Hospital	Room No. No. 2, Psychiatric ward	066-9330003
29	Nankana Sahib	THQ Hospital	Room No. 2-B, New OPD	0346-0708512
30	Narowal	DHQ Hospital	Room No.96, 1st floor, OPD	054-2920129
31	Okara	DHQ Hospital	Cardiac Block, 1st Floor, Near Tea Room	044-9330148
32	Pakpattan	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 30, New OPD Building	0333-4388033
33	Kasur	DHQ Hospital	Room 85	0301-4857722
34	Rahim Yar Khan	Sheikh Zaid Hospital	Near Operation Theatre, Phase-2	068-9230209
35	Rajanpur	DHQ Hospital	Room No.108, OPD	0321-4262877
36	Rawalpindi	Benazir Bhutto Hospital	Opposite Main OPD	051-9290824
37	Sahiwal	DHQ Hospital	Beside Pathology Lab, Basement of OPD	040-9200403
38	Sargodha	DHQ Hospital	Ward No.10	048-9230569
39	Sargodha	THQ Hospital	Room No.33, THQ Hospital, Tehsil Kot Momin	0343-4300066
40	Shiekhupura	DHQ Hospital	Room No. 3, PKLI Building	056-9200345
41	Sialkot	Allama Iqbal Hospital	Room No.22, Family Ward	052-9250071
42	Toba Tek Singh	DHQ Hospital	Room No.32, Main OPD (new building)	046-9201110
43	Vehari	DHQ Hospital	Last Room (near old emergency)	067-9201118

 

Achievements:

• State of the art Bio-Safety Level 3 laboratory
• 45 HIV treatment centers in 36 districts of Punjab
• 36 Satellite treatment centers in all prisons of Punjab
• Biometric Registration of all patients for seamless service delivery
• Lost to Follow-up mechanism that ensures no patient is left untreated
• Free provision of Opportunistic infection medication to HIV patients
• Provision of rashan packages to people living with HIV with collaboration of APLHIV
• More than 17500 patients actively getting free treatment
• More than 400 HIV negative childbirths from HIV positive mothers

  

Contact Us:

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• YouTube: www.youtube.com/PACPMedia
• Health Line: 1033
• Head Office: Punjab AIDS Control Program, PACP Complex, 6-Birdwood Road, Lahore.
• Office Phone: 042-99201092 & 93
  

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