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Shishu Kallyan Foundation, Mohammad Khairul Alam
Mohammad Khairul
Alam
Executive Director
Rainbow Nari O
Shishu Kallyan Foundation
24/3 M.C. Roy Lane
Dhaka-122
Bangladesh
rainbowngo@gmail.com
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Consensual sex is
increasing in
Bangladesh; it would
become vulnerable of HIV/AIDS
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.
HIV/AIDS epidemic
spreads out depend on several social custom or norm prejudicial practice,
such as gender discrimination, sexual violence, early marriage, trafficking,
unsafe sex or exploitation of sex workers, transmission of other STDs,
intravenous/injection drug uses. Socio-economic position and illiteracy also
can makes vulnerable for HIV/AIDS.
An increase in
affluence also has resulted in a rise in the number of men who visit
commercial sex workers. HIV/AIDS in
Bangladesh, therefore
depends on the conditions in the commercial sex industry, including the
frequency of the incidents of men visiting commercial sex workers. While,
everyone buying sex in
Bangladesh
is having unprotected sex some of the time, and a large majority don’t use
condoms regularly. The fourth national surveillance also found a high
prevalence of syphilis among female sex workers. The same floating sex
workers in central Bangladesh who had a 0.5 percent prevalence of HIV, for
example, had a 42.7 percent prevalence of syphilis.
Bangladesh is still
considered as a low HIV/AIDS prevalent country; by the way Bangladesh is
passing at a critical moment, the majority of AIDS cases in here are the
result of needle sharing. Of 500 injection drug users questioned in central
Bangladesh during the fourth national surveillance, 93.4 percent said they
had shared needles in last week. Providing clean needles is also considered
important because it decreases the spread of HIV from injection drug-users.
It is also important to bring a behavioural change among commercial sex
workers (CSWs) by promoting the use of condom.
After several
investigate on sex industries have identified more then 1,00,000 various
category commercial and non-commercial sex workers in
Bangladesh
who are most of them illiterate. Some female brothel sex workers have an
average of 20-25 clients per week, Female hotel sex worker meet an average
of 44 clients in a week, the highest number of clients in commercial sex
than any other counties in South-East Asian region. Moreover the residence
sex workers and floating sex workers are present in large number though the
precise distribution and prevalence is still unknown. By a study ‘Rainbow
Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ also found that a substantial proportion
of some young and single textile, garment workers, tea garden female
workers, house key-per supplement their low wages by occasional
prostitution. Consensual sex or non-commercial sex exists in rural
societies, particularly when husbands are absent for a long time.
Sex before marriage,
or sex after marriage without spouse, is still taboo for most people in our
society. Most would also prefer their partners to be virgins. Sex has become
much more accepted in our society today. The fact that sex has become very
common among adolescents today is irrefutable.
Sex is consent is more
common in the upper classes and the poorer classes of society; it seems they
have both social and religious approval to engage in consensual sex and can
have it anywhere. Some private sector, high official persons are engaged
consensual sex with their subordinate female colleagues. It happens to avoid
official harassment or money or any other material compensation is involved.
Lower female workers like as garment workers sometimes has a boyfriend for
the sake of protection from harassment by other men. Some low wages female
workers engage to consensual sex to fulfill their families’ burden.
Women in
Bangladesh are largely
getting sexual experience through marriage and for the most part, sex is
consent is mostly confined to their future husband or lovers. “Rainbow Nari
O Shishu Kallyan Foundation” found, sexual behaviour among Bangladeshi women
is changing. Young girls may not remain in the traditional sexual
confinement of the previous generations and consensual sex among them is on
the rise. It may encourage AIDS to acquire alarming proportions in
Bangladesh.
Media, jobs security
and natural devastation always play a vital role to change human behaviour.
This social change would happen gradually or rapidly. By the way, the cause
of changing of human behaviour in our society is to the mixed effect of
urbanization and modernization has brought frustration in the man. For these
two things people are forgetting traditional social norms, family sexual
behaviour is changing, attitude of peoples towards sex is changing very
fast. Besides migration for jobs, an increasing number of women taking up
jobs outside the home, a decline in the traditional joint family system, and
conflict to global culture were considered to have contributed to this
phenomenon.
References: Rainbow
Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation, World Bank
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