Bangladesh is a still considered as a low HIV/AIDS prevalent country with around 15 hundred infected people that can spread out anytime as vulnerability to this disease in neighboring India and Myanmar is very high.
Experts at a seminar have said social stigma is a major obstacle to fighting HIV/AIDS in the country.
Describing the AIDS as a deadly disease, they said all should change their attitude towards HIV/AIDS-infected patients for the prevention of the disease.
Bangladesh will continue to receive financial support from the world's leading organisation Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) until 2012.
The husband of Sumona Akhter of Gopalganj died of AIDS over two years back. At that time, she came to know that she was also an AIDS affected. The case of Sumona Akhter is not an isolated incident. In our country, there are other women and children who fell sick to the deadly disease.
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday underscored the need for mainstreaming the HIV/AIDS issue to help raise awareness and provide cost-effective service.
The roundtable titled 'Mainstreaming of HIV: Role of leadership in Bangladesh' was organised jointly by the UNFPA and The Daily Star at its conference room in the city.
এক কবি লিখেছিলেন, ‘প্রেম এক জিপসি শিশু।’ এমন এক শিশু যে সমাজের বেঁধে দেওয়া নিয়ম মানে না আর কেবলই জায়গা বদল করে। প্রেম নিয়ে কাব্য আর কথকতা তো কম হয়নি, কিন্তু প্রেমের সঙ্গে রোগের কী সম্পর্ক? নেদারল্যান্ড থেকে প্রকাশিত চিকিৎসা নৃবিজ্ঞানের একটি পত্রিকা পড়ছিলাম, যার এবারের সংখ্যার বিষয় রোগ ও প্রেম। প্রেম কি একধরনের রোগ? আলোচনা করেছেন তাঁরা। আমাদের লোকসাহিত্যে আমরা ‘ভাবের ব্যারাম’ বলে একটা কথার অস্তিত্ব পাই।
Nayan, a thirteen years cute boy lives in Mohammadpur, Dhaka. But he didn't know that he suffered form HIV/AIDS and before suffering he didn't know what is AIDS: is it a disease or name of some other things?
Asia has one of the fastest rates of spread of HIV/AIDS infection in the world. At present, HIV/AIDS infection is still virtually nonexistent amongst most of these populations in Bangladesh. But it is extremely likely that once it is initiated, it will spread rapidly through these extended networks of risk.
