Staff Reporter :
When the number of HIV inflected patients decreased in the globe, it increased in Bangladesh.
“HIV infected patients have decreased across the world in contrast to increase in Bangladesh,” UNICEF representative in Dhaka Edouard Beigbeder said it on Saturday in a seminar in Krishibid Institution in the capital.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said, at least 869 new HIV positive patients had been diagnosed in Bangladesh in 2018, adding that at least 148 people died of HIV in this year.
National AIDS / SDT programme organised the seminar on the occasion of World HIV/Aids Day observed on Saturday.
The Health Minister said, Bangladesh has a goal to eliminate HIV/AIDS from the country by 2030. We shall surely be succesful.
He said, HIV targets mainly drug addicts and the youth should be kept from drugs.
AIDS/SDT Line Director Shaiul Islam said currently Bangladesh has about 13,000 HIV positive patients, but some of them could not be identified.
Bangladesh so far identified 6,455 HIV positive patients.
The health ministry’s data also showed that 188 HIV positive patients were identified among the Rohingya population in Bangladesh.
Additional Director General of Health Department Professor Nasima Sultana presided over the programme. Health Services Department Secretary Asadul Islam, Health Education and Family Welfare Department Secretary GM Saleh Uddin and People Living with HIV Network President Hafiz Uddin spoke on the occasion.
When the number of HIV inflected patients decreased in the globe, it increased in Bangladesh.
“HIV infected patients have decreased across the world in contrast to increase in Bangladesh,” UNICEF representative in Dhaka Edouard Beigbeder said it on Saturday in a seminar in Krishibid Institution in the capital.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim said, at least 869 new HIV positive patients had been diagnosed in Bangladesh in 2018, adding that at least 148 people died of HIV in this year.
National AIDS / SDT programme organised the seminar on the occasion of World HIV/Aids Day observed on Saturday.
The Health Minister said, Bangladesh has a goal to eliminate HIV/AIDS from the country by 2030. We shall surely be succesful.
He said, HIV targets mainly drug addicts and the youth should be kept from drugs.
AIDS/SDT Line Director Shaiul Islam said currently Bangladesh has about 13,000 HIV positive patients, but some of them could not be identified.
Bangladesh so far identified 6,455 HIV positive patients.
The health ministry’s data also showed that 188 HIV positive patients were identified among the Rohingya population in Bangladesh.
Additional Director General of Health Department Professor Nasima Sultana presided over the programme. Health Services Department Secretary Asadul Islam, Health Education and Family Welfare Department Secretary GM Saleh Uddin and People Living with HIV Network President Hafiz Uddin spoke on the occasion.
