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Mohammad Khairul
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Shishu Kallyan Foundation
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Dhaka-122
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AIDS,
A Disease Largely of Poverty
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.
Social conflict,
violence, political situation, Gender discrimination, poverty, women
trafficking, early marriage, domestic and sexual violence, exploitation of
sex workers, nutrition status, transmission of other STDs, intravenous/
injection drug abuse are among the socio-cultural factors, traditional
social values linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Behaviors of injecting drug
users (IDUs) in
Bangladesh place them
at very high risk for HIV infection. Currently 8.9% of people registered
with HIV/AIDS infected the virus through injecting drug use in the central
area.
The Rainbow Nari O
Shishu Kallyan Foundation & L.R.B Foundation jointly survey focuses on the
attitude, behavior and practice of commercial & non- commercial / casual sex
workers (so-called sex workers), floating/ street sex workers in Dhaka city
in Bangladesh, this study did point out that almost 16% of sex workers enter
the profession before the age of 18 years, and 30% enter between 18 to 24
years of age. Approximately 10% of prostitutes belong to the scheduled
castes minority people; about 90% floating sew workers enrolled due to
poverty.
Though, poverty does
not the major cause HIV/AIDS infection; it can facilitate transmission,
Poverty makes people more vulnerable to HIV infection, due to lack of health
care knowledge, lack of proper digest, and lack of sufficient nutrition,
which can result in a weaker immune system. They also have less access to
healthcare facilities and education on health issues such as HIV prevention.
Sequentially, the epidemic amplifies and become deeper poverty by its
serious economic impact on individuals, households and different sectors of
the economy. Poverty is the reason why messages of prevention and control do
not make an impact on a vast majority of the vulnerable population. So it is
fact, poverty & gender discrimination would be the one of the main cause of
the spread of AIDS in Bangladesh, The rate of vulnerability to HIV/AIDS is
our country is higher then the many parts of the world.
Human trafficking,
often qualified as the ‘modern day slavery’, is caused by human rights
violations embodied in poverty while it also contributes to increased
deprivation. Poverty is one of the main factors leading people, especially
women, girls and children to fall preys to the traffickers.
Poverty, Gender
discrimination and Human Trafficking and HIV/AIDS are correlated. In turn,
human trafficking locks up the trafficked persons in poverty through
exploitation. This vicious circle ‘poverty – human trafficking – HIV/AIDS’
denies individuals the basic right to education and information, the right
to health, the right to decent work, the right to security and justice. Mr.
Anirudha Alam, assistant Director of BEES said, poverty effects and is
aggravated by poor maternal health, gender inequity, and lack of birth
control knowledge and contraceptive methods. This holistic view has helped
slow the increase in world population. This circle is making more vulnerable
of humankind.
Bangladesh is
developing country, the common feature in rural areas is very poor, and most
of them live on agro-base works, poverty and illiteracy is ordinary fact in
here. Incidentally, in general health care system is very poor in
Bangladesh. Thousands of people die in every year by several seasonal
diseases. Particular health care or prevention knowledge would prevent this
fatal mortality. Rural women, in generally have less access to information
and education and are therefore less able to make an informed response to
the disease.
Reference: FHI,
UNAIDS, World Bank
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