January 2009 Blog Posts (56)

AIDS, A Disease Largely of Poverty





-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foudation-









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…

Adolescent Sexuality And HIV/AIDS





-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foudation-









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…

Poverty Potential A Vast Factor to HIV/AIDS





-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foudation-









HIV/AIDS is not now a problem of individual or a population, it turns into a global problem. AIDS has become the most harmful disease humankind has ever faced. Since the start of the epidemic, more than 50 million people have been infected with the HIV. Some worst effected region of sub-Saharan Africa where…

AIDS: No Way Out





-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foudation-







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.…

-Mohammad Khairul Alam-

-Executive Director-

-Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation-







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 transmission of HIV, are present in virtually all countries of the…