The connection of HIV/AIDS with humanitarian crises is creating troubling new problems for all over the world. By the end of 2006, about more or less 39.5 million people worldwide were livings with HIV/AIDS, 90% of them in poor and developing countries. During 2006 alone, a total of 4.3 million adults and children were found to be newly infected with HIV, and in the same year, 2.9 million people died from HIV/AIDS - 85% of them Africans. In two decades, AIDS has killed almost 30 million people and orphaned over 14 million children.

Worldwide, rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people are soaring: one-third of the 340 million new STIs each year occur in people under 25 years of age. Each year, more than one in every 20 adolescents contracts a curable STI. More than half of all new HIV infections occur in people between the ages of 15 to 24 years. The sexual health needs for adolescent girls are generally overlooked, Stigma and vulnerability affects particular groups of men as well as women.

The view of poor & developing countries, In generally we found that women & adolescent girls are more vulnerable to HIV infection on each sexual encounter because of the biological nature of the process and the vulnerability of the reproductive tract tissues to the virus, especially in adolescent girls. For example, young women are generally disadvantaged by gender disparities. In terms of food intake, access to health care and growth patterns, girls are often worse off than boys. The inequalities become evident soon after birth, and by adolescence many girls are grossly underweight. Social Cultural and economic forces make women more likely to contract HIV infection than men. Women are often less able to negotiate for safer sex due to reasons such as their lower status, economic dependence and fear of violence, adolescent girls in the countries.

HIV/AIDS constitute a significant public health threat around the world. By the end of 2006, about 39.5 million people worldwide were living with HIV/AIDS, unfortunately 90% of them in developing countries. During 2006 alone, a total of 4.3 million adults and children were found to be newly infected with HIV, and in the same year, 2.9 million people died from HIV/AIDS - 80% of them Africans. In two decades, AIDS has killed almost 30 million people and orphaned over 14 million children.

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Warm Greetings from ISDE, Bangladesh!

গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের প্রতিষ্ঠাতা ড. মুহাম্মদ ইউনূসের ক্ষুদ্রঋণের সাফল্য হিসেবে সারাবিশ্বে তুলে ধরা হয় চট্টগ্রামের ‘জোবরা’ গ্রামের সুফিয়াকে। প্রচার করা হয়, গ্রামীণ ব্যাংকের ঋণ নিয়ে সুফিয়া স্বাবলম্বী হয়েছেন। প্রকৃতপক্ষে এই সুফিয়া খাতুন চরম দারিদ্র্যের মধ্যে বিনা চিকিৎসায় ধুঁকে ধুঁকে মারা যান ১৯৯৮ সালে। গ্রামবাসী চাঁদা তুলে তার দাফনের ব্যবস্থা করে।

THE mother-daughter bond influences our lives in ways we may not even realise. The relationship between a woman and her mother is so powerful, it affects everything from her health and self-esteem to all her other relationships, experts say.

HIV/AIDS has become one of the major health problems affecting people around the world.

রানীকে ছুঁয়ে নিয়ম ভাঙলেন মিশেল!

A Global Profession

Three generations of prostitution.
In Bangladesh.

Munnie, 15, was taken out of school to join the family business. Jova, her grandmother, felt there was little choice.