AIDS situations worrying in Bangladesh

AIDS problems worrying in Bangladesh

Mohammad Khairul Alam –
AIDS Researcher –
Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Basis –
Dhaka, Bangladesh –
Rainbowngo@gmail.com –

AIDS which poses a challenge to the mankind, has by now claimed the lives of a lot more than forty million and an added 14,000 are additional every day to this alarming figure. Every single calendar year three million are dying of HIV/AIDS. In accordance to a WHO report, an approximated 42 million men and women throughout the world are presently residing with HIV. It is spread by means of make contact with with the blood or semen of a particular person infected with HIV. This can occur during unsafe intercourse (without having condom). Men and women who inject medication may get HIV if they reveal a needle with an contaminated particular person. HIV also spreads by means of blood transfusion. HIV is not spread by casual contact this kind of as hugging, kissing, keeping arms, sitting on toilet seats, or sharing clothing.

Lately, ‘Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ has targeted largely on three types of operate on HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh — local community mobilisation for avoidance through advertising of fidelity, condom-use and abstinence advocacy on obtain to affordable therapies, targeted at medication producers and global donor organisations and work to make sure ‘mainstream’ assist to AIDS-impacted men and women and communities for integration on poverty mitigation work. HIV/AIDS has good relation with poverty and gender inequality. Without decline in gender discrimination and poverty, all efforts to avoid HIV/AIDS or sustainable advancement in this sector will fall short.

Campaigns to boost consciousness on HIV and AIDS have to be clear and with the easy messages this kind of as utilizing condoms, and these really should deal with deep-rooted gender inequality and interpret the pitfalls to females which are outside of their management. In avoidance strategies, adolescent ladies do seem as a target team. The education sector, and universities in certain, ought to be typically a main goal for HIV/AIDS avoidance programmes, through intercourse education and information of condom-use. By the way we have to handle or uncover out those who did not get possibility to enrol in these institutions. We have to evolve various strategies to get to the messages to them. In addition, wellbeing education and learning programmes which goal to empower ladies and women to use condoms frequently fail adequately to tackle the real problems since of imbalanced power relations. The desired adjustments in the behaviour of adolescent ladies and boys can’t occur without having programmes addressing such troubles like how a girl can say no, but also why boys, teachers and other grown ups need to respect the human rights of girls.

Wellbeing and training sectors can work jointly to develop prevention programmes in educational institutions/schools, which improve awareness of gender inequality amid boys and school/higher education staffs, as effectively as girls on their own. This sort of programmes also require to expand beyond the school boundaries to attain adolescent women and boys who do not go to school/college or have dropped out. This could help reduce girls’ continuing vulnerability to violence, coercive sex and HIV infection.

In numerous developing countries, poverty and gender discrimination are each firmly linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Gender and age examination displays the approaches in which ladies and ladies of numerous ages are susceptible to the infection and in need to have of assistance to enable the survivors to prevail over the economic and social consequences of the epidemic. In fact, HIV/AIDS and poverty alleviation tactics are interconnected.

Ladies empowerment can prevent gender discrimination, which justifies a holistic technique of policies and programmes to minimize poverty and deal with HIV/AIDS. For example, poverty sales opportunities women into unsafe sexual encounters, and speeds the onset of AIDS-connected ailments. Violence against women and ladies is common in societies with high instability or conflicts. All these elements set up the truth that a lot more females than males are staying recently infected each and every day. It also signifies that girls are much more very likely to contract HIV and fall ill with AIDS at a more youthful age than males. Advancement organisations and policymakers have not nevertheless totally taken into account the demographic modifications triggered by HIV and AIDS, despite the fact that there is a increasing consciousness of the crucial need to do this. Blended gender and age examination is a required action to help development organisations to design policies and programmes that would lessen vulnerability to the epidemic, and minimise its effect on health and livelihoods.

References: Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Basis, ADRS, UNAIDS