- Title
- National Policy on HIV/AIDS and STD Related Issues
- Imprint
- Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, November 1996, 92 pp
- Url
- http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/laws /bangladeshnationalpolicy.pdf
- Description
"Drafted by a Task Force Appointed by the Director General of Health Services In collaboration with National AIDS Committee, Bangladesh and its Technical Committee (October 1995). "The Final Draft Reviewed by a Core Groups formed by the Director General of Health Services & through a Multi-Sectoral Consensus Workshop sponsored by Prevention and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Project (October 1996). And also finally scrutinised by the Selected Committee formed by the National AIDS Committee, Bangladesh (November 1996)."
- Abstract
"Four cross-cutting and priority issues were given emphasis in this document. These were human rights, gender, behaviour and information, and education and communication.This Policy Statement endorses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a standard for policy making and action at all levels in the response to HIV/AIDS and STDs in Bangladesh. All fundamental principles enshrined in the text of UDHR are to be followed in pursuance of policy making."
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Topics
- Blood safety
- Children/Orphans
- Co-infection
- Communications programming
- Condoms
- Counselling
- Education
- Epidemiological surveillance
- Gender and HIV/AIDS
- HIV in the workplace/World of work
- HIV/AIDS
- Human rights and ethics
- Injecting drug use
- Media
- Men who have sex with men
- Mobile populations
- Mother-to-child transmission
- National plans
- Schools
- Sex workers and clients
- Sexually transmitted infections
- Testing, notification and reporting
- Vaccines
- Young people
Related Published Resources
isCitedBy
- Bangladesh AIDS and Prevention Control Programme, Strategic Plan of The National AIDS Programme of Bangladesh 1997-2002, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, July 2000, 44 pp. (Also available at http://hivaidsclearinghouse.unesco.org /ev.php?URL_ID=1653&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1097143865) [ Details... ]
isReferencedBy
- Hawkes, Sarah and Tasnim Azim, 'Health Care Systems in Transition III. Bangladesh, Part II. Bangladesh's Response to HIV-AIDS.', Journal of Public Health Medicine, vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 10-13. (Also available at http://jpubhealth.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/22/1/10) [ Details... ]