Call to work together on raising awareness against AIDS
Thursday, 14 June 2007
FE Report
Health and Family Welfare Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman Tuesday called upon parents, teachers, community and religious leaders to work together for awareness creating on the risk intensity of HIV/AIDS in the country.
"Our ultimate plan is to protect everybody from the HIV/AIDS virus infection through awareness building campaign," he said speaking at a workshop organised by Podokhhep Manobik Unnayan Kendra with financial assistance of Global Fund at the Officers’ Club in the city.
However, discussants said Bangladesh is fortunate to be one of the countries in the Asia Pacific region where the prevalence rate of HIV infection is low.
They said continuing high risk behaviour among male and female sex workers and their clients, transgender, men having sex with men, injecting drugs users, high rate of STIs and low condom use, all contribute to the threat of the spread of the epidemic unless preventive efforts are initiated to avert it among the general population.
Among others, Md. Ataur Rahman, Secretary of Religion Ministry, Md. Didarul Anwer, Secretary of Information Ministry, Sheik Wahid-Uz-Zaman, Secretary of Science Information and Communica-tion Ministry, Md. Abdus Subur, Secretary in-charge of Hill Tracts Ministry, Md. Golam Mostofa Talukdar, Secretary in-charge of Young and Sports Ministry, Rokya Sultana, Secretary in-charge of Woman and Child Affairs Ministry, Abdul Awal Mojumder, Additional Secretary of Education Ministry, Md. Shahjahan Biswas, Director General of Health Department, Md. Jahangir, Join Secretary (Public Health and World Health), Ministry of Health and Family Affairs, Md. Hanif Uddin, Programme Manager (National AIDS/STD Pro-gramme), Kland Stevenson, Country Director (Save the Children USA), and ABM Siddque, President, Iqbal Ahammed, Executive Director, Podokhhep Manobik Unnayan Kendra took part in the discussion at the workshop with Jamil Osman, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Affairs, in the chair.
Health and Family Welfare Adviser ASM Matiur Rahman Tuesday called upon parents, teachers, community and religious leaders to work together for awareness creating on the risk intensity of HIV/AIDS in the country.
"Our ultimate plan is to protect everybody from the HIV/AIDS virus infection through awareness building campaign," he said speaking at a workshop organised by Podokhhep Manobik Unnayan Kendra with financial assistance of Global Fund at the Officers’ Club in the city.
However, discussants said Bangladesh is fortunate to be one of the countries in the Asia Pacific region where the prevalence rate of HIV infection is low.
They said continuing high risk behaviour among male and female sex workers and their clients, transgender, men having sex with men, injecting drugs users, high rate of STIs and low condom use, all contribute to the threat of the spread of the epidemic unless preventive efforts are initiated to avert it among the general population.
Among others, Md. Ataur Rahman, Secretary of Religion Ministry, Md. Didarul Anwer, Secretary of Information Ministry, Sheik Wahid-Uz-Zaman, Secretary of Science Information and Communica-tion Ministry, Md. Abdus Subur, Secretary in-charge of Hill Tracts Ministry, Md. Golam Mostofa Talukdar, Secretary in-charge of Young and Sports Ministry, Rokya Sultana, Secretary in-charge of Woman and Child Affairs Ministry, Abdul Awal Mojumder, Additional Secretary of Education Ministry, Md. Shahjahan Biswas, Director General of Health Department, Md. Jahangir, Join Secretary (Public Health and World Health), Ministry of Health and Family Affairs, Md. Hanif Uddin, Programme Manager (National AIDS/STD Pro-gramme), Kland Stevenson, Country Director (Save the Children USA), and ABM Siddque, President, Iqbal Ahammed, Executive Director, Podokhhep Manobik Unnayan Kendra took part in the discussion at the workshop with Jamil Osman, Additional Secretary of Ministry of Health and Family Affairs, in the chair.