May 2009 Blog Posts (346)

AIDS: Teen vulnerability

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Teenage is a developmental episode marked by discovery and experimentation that comes with a myriad of physical and emotional changes. Sexual behavior and/or drug use are often a part of this exploration. During this time of growth and change, Teenagers get mixed messages. Teens are urged to remain abstinent while surrounded by images on… Continue

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HIV Risk Behavior Among Trafficking Victim

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Trafficking in young girls, children and women is a matter of great concern all over the world. In South Asia, cross-border trafficking, sourcing, transit to destination is a big problem. Even more prevalent is the movement of persons within the countries for exploitation in various forms. There are no definite figures about the number of… Continue

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AIDS: No Way Out

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

The epidemics in many countries of South Asia are now entering a new phase. One of the first populations to be affected by HIV in South Asia were injecting drug users. In areas where drug injection has been long established, such as Manipur in north-eastern India, HIV prevalence rates of over 40 percent have been recorded for several years. Several hundred thousand people infected… Continue

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HIV/AIDS: The Issue of Prostitute

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

The HIV/AIDS epidemic has developed into a major warning to human development— mainly in the poorest countries of the world. It 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.… Continue

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AIDS: Dark in Life

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

The Asian HIV/AIDS epidemic is highly dynamic. Though, in the early 1980s when the HIV/AIDS epidemic was becoming significant in the Western Hemisphere and Africa, only a few cases of HIV infection were reported in Asia. The risky behaviour and vulnerability, which promote, fuel and facilitate the rapid… Continue

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AIDS: Adolescent Vulnerability

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

In many countries the majority of adolescents are sexually experienced by the age of 20 and premarital and consensual sex is common among 15-19 year-olds. Sometimes teenager’s Risky sexual behaviour is also can result in contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Contracting a sexually transmitted infection is a behavioral problem not a pharmaceutical one. It is unprotected… Continue

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HIV/AIDS: Female Issues

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Lately, More than half of all new HIV infections occur in women between the ages of 15 to 24 years. The impact of HIV/AIDS on women and girls is particularly acute. In many developing or poor countries, women are often economically, culturally and socially disadvantaged and lack equal access to treatment, financial support and education. In a number of… Continue

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Street Girls: Vulnerability and Risk to HIV/AIDS

-Mohammad

Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

The phenomenon of street children and girls has been a major concern for most areas of Dhaka city. Thousands of street children and girls all over in Bangladesh, primarily in the urban areas, work and live in the streets. Urban poverty, increasing dissatisfaction with the public educational system together with the difficult living conditions…

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Experiences of vulnerable factor of HIV

Experiences of Sexuality Risk of HIV

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Adolescents girls are at fastidious vulnerable in HIV/AIDS. In some of the poor countries in world, girls, aged 15 to 19, are infected at rates as much as seven times higher than boys; in some regions, girls are infected at twice the rate. The disproportionate impact is related to widespread sexual… Continue

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HIV/AIDS: The Issue of Drugs

HIV/AIDS: The Issue of Drugs

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

HIV/AIDS epidemic is described as the worst difficulty in the history of health. In fact, human beings have been having great problems since time immemorial but there had never been the worst complexity like AIDS. HIV/AIDS is similar to war but it is worse than war in that when armies fight, it is mostly… Continue

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HIV/AIDS and Risk: The Handling of Uncertainty

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Acquired Immune Defiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a viral Sexual Transmission Diseases (STDs) which threatens life expectancy and, with it, development, social cohesion, political stability and food security. It imposes a devastating economic burden on countries. It affects everyone in both developed and less develops countries. It is not a disease of… Continue

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HIV and Risk Behavior

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

Sexually transmitted diseases/ infections — also known as STDs/STIs and once called venereal diseases — are infectious diseases that spread from person to person through intimate/ sexual contact. There are different kinds of STDs, Some kinds of STDs are very dangerous for human health. It can cause permanent damage, such as infertility (the inability to have a baby) and even… Continue

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AIDS: Relations of Girls Trafficking

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Sexual trafficking of children, women and girls through commercial exploitation, is a fundamental violation of their rights. It is a universal and complex problem, which defies both simplistic analysis and easy answers. It encompasses a range of abusers, different forms of abuse, and differs in the type and degree of impact on the victim. Every year,… Continue

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AIDS: Increas Vulnerability

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Bangladesh is still a low prevalence country (HIV-infection rate is less than 1%), but there is a potential for expanding HIV/AIDS epidemic in the future, because the country is very receptive to HIV infection. The receptivity is due to increasing trend of prostitution, domestic and international migration, urbanization, poverty, and proximity to areas… Continue

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AIDS: Trucker Vulnerability

AIDS: Trucker Vulnerability

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

AIDS has become a global crisis. As of the end of 2005, an estimated 42 million people worldwide - 38 million adults and about 3 million children younger than 15 years - were living with HIV/AIDS. Approximately two-thirds of these people live in Sub-Saharan Africa; another 18 percent live in Asia and the Pacific. The pandemic kills millions,… Continue

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HIV in 21st century

HIV in 21st century

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to spread around the world. As per the estimates of United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) 39.5 million people were living with HIV in 2006. In this year 4.3 million were newly infected, it has turned a serious global epidemic, virtually all of them in poor or developing countries. The disease has… Continue

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AIDS: Female in Pakistan

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

In 1987, Pakistan was reported first HIV/AIDS case in Lahore. During the late 1980s and 1990s, it became evident that an increasing number, mostly men, were becoming infected with HIV while living or traveling abroad.

In Pakistan, the intravenous drug users (IDU) are the most potential carriers of HIV/AIDS among the vulnerable groups… Continue

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AIDS: in Bangladesh

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

Although Bangladesh continues to be a low prevalence area, it is surrounded by high prevalence countries (High prevalence of HIV/AIDS in neighboring India). We however must not adopt a complacent attitude in respect as our country has all the determinants for an explosive outbreak of HIV/AIDS epidemic. Curses of poverty, illiteracy, ignorance,… Continue

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AIDS: Women & Poverty

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

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… Continue

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HIV Risk Behavior Depend on Adolescent Knowledge

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-

rainbowngo@gmail.com

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.… Continue

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