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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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Adolescent Knowledge of Sexuality And HIV/AIDS
Worldwide, rates of
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among adolescents are soaring:
one-third of the 340 million new STDs/STI each year occur in people under 25
years of age. Each yearly, more than one in every 20 adolescents contracts a
curable STDs/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. Although men generally have more access to
information on sexual issues than women, and more decision-making power
regarding sexual behavior, Access to information, and treatment for other
infections which facilitate the transmission of HIV and onset of AIDS,
including STDs/STI, are limited because of weak public health services,
health workers’ negative attitudes, and the high cost of treatment.
Adolescent girls in
poor families in
Bangladesh, most of
whom are out-of-school, comprise a sizeable proportion of the female
population. They are especially vulnerable and neglected, coming under the
purview of government programs only once they are pregnant- the majority are
out of school and are neither serviced by educational or school health
programs nor by child health, reproductive health and nutrition services. At
the family level too, girls are highly vulnerable: male child preference is
pervasive, resulting in gender inequality in health care, food intake,
school attendance and labor contribution of children, from an early age.
In generally,
Bangladeshi women or girls are basically getting sexual experience through
marriage and for the most part, premarital sexual contact is mostly confined
to their future husband or lovers. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation
found, sexual behaviour among Bangladeshi women is changing. Adolescent
girls may not remain in the traditional sexual confinement of the previous
generations and casual sex among them is on the rise. This may encourage
AIDS to acquire alarming proportions in
Bangladesh.
A new strategy apply
some reprobate people a very recent that several college or university girls
are being enrolled into providing privately sex works (Residential sex work)
through blackmail methods often by taking their nude photograph or short
movie by digital hidden mini camera, when they engage consensual sex work or
close entertainment with their lovers or friend and threatening them that
the photos or movies would be published in poster form if they do not agree
to their terms and conditions.
There are also several
groups of adolescent people with increased vulnerability for HIV
transmission because of their social status. Among the growing number of
street children or street girls, the risk of infection is exacerbated due to
a high prevalence of risky sexual behaviors and injecting drug use. Although
the growing public awareness of the existence of the HIV crisis, the actual
knowledge of the problem is superficial, particularly among adolescents.
Their understanding of the modes of transmission and prevention methods is
incomplete and often misconstrued. Recent research in North region’s three
districts in
Bangladesh by jointly Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation & L.R.B
Foundation has shown that while provide HIV information with discussions of
safe-sex and gender issue may be discouraged for young girls and women
because of the ordinary belief that to inform them about sexuality and
safe-sex is to encourage sexual activity. Even though that for fear of
encouraging sexual activity, mothers deny imperative information about
sexual-live, safe sex, reproductive health information from their daughters.
HIV/AIDS is a deadly
disease, but also everybody can safe from it. Everyone can protect from HIV
infection by making smart decisions about sex and drugs. Some things are
very risky to do, some less risky, and some are 100 percent safe. Obviously,
the surest way to avoid the virus is to choose not to have sexual
intercourse - vaginal, oral, or anal - and not to use illegal drugs. By the
way, what is therefore urgently required for adolescents are programs/
activities which help deal with they're own well-being, their health, their
bodies and their sexual lives. This is particularly important in light of
the HIV pandemic and in light of growing evidence of both ignorance in
sexual matters on the one hand and considerable sexual activity among young
unmarried people in the other.
Reference: UNAIDS,
World Bank, STD network
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