Staff Reporter :
The rate of AIDS infection is below 0.01 percent in Bangladesh. Two separate statements from the President and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh said it on Thursday on the occasion of the World AIDS Day.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said that 578 people were infected with human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) and 141 victims died in the country in this year. The Health Minister vowed to drive out AIDS from Bangladesh by 2030.
The Minister said it while speaking at a discussion meeting marking the day organised by the ministry at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city.
The Health Minister said, there are 4,721 AIDS patients in the country in total now, and a number of 799 patients died so far since 1989.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS in abbreviation, is a serious disease caused by HIV which destroys the body’s natural protection systems from infection, and which usually causes death.
The World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year across the world to raise awareness about AIDS caused by HIV, and to demonstrate international solidarity and to prevent the spread of the disease in the face of the endemic.
Health and family Welfare Secretary Sirjaul Islam presided over the programme.
Additional Secretary Biman Kumar Saha, Director General of the Health Department Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of the Family Welfare Department Dr. Wahid Hossain and BMA Secretary General Dr. Iqbal Arslan, among others, also delivered speech.
The rate of AIDS infection is below 0.01 percent in Bangladesh. Two separate statements from the President and the Prime Minister of Bangladesh said it on Thursday on the occasion of the World AIDS Day.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Mohammad Nasim said that 578 people were infected with human immune-deficiency virus (HIV) and 141 victims died in the country in this year. The Health Minister vowed to drive out AIDS from Bangladesh by 2030.
The Minister said it while speaking at a discussion meeting marking the day organised by the ministry at Osmani Memorial Auditorium in the city.
The Health Minister said, there are 4,721 AIDS patients in the country in total now, and a number of 799 patients died so far since 1989.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS in abbreviation, is a serious disease caused by HIV which destroys the body’s natural protection systems from infection, and which usually causes death.
The World AIDS Day is observed on December 1 every year across the world to raise awareness about AIDS caused by HIV, and to demonstrate international solidarity and to prevent the spread of the disease in the face of the endemic.
Health and family Welfare Secretary Sirjaul Islam presided over the programme.
Additional Secretary Biman Kumar Saha, Director General of the Health Department Professor Dr. Abul Kalam Azad, Director General of the Family Welfare Department Dr. Wahid Hossain and BMA Secretary General Dr. Iqbal Arslan, among others, also delivered speech.
