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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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