People's Republic of Bangladesh
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- http://www.bangladesh.gov.bd
- Summary
Population (July 2008 est.): 153,546,901
Economic Indicators (2007 est.):
GDP (PPP): US$206.7 billion
GDP per capita (PPP): US$1,300HIV estimates:
Adults and children with HIV (2007): 12,000
Adult (15-49) Prevalence Rate (2007 high estimate): <0.1%
Women (15+) with HIV (2005): 1400
AIDS deaths (2007): <500
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Published Resources
Journal Articles
- 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... ]
Reports
- National Policy on HIV/AIDS and STD Related Issues, Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, November 1996, 92 pp. (Also available at http://www.ilo.org/public/english/protection/trav/aids/laws /bangladeshnationalpolicy.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Sex Work in Asia, World Health Organization Regional Office for the Western Pacific, July 2001, 38 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/D01A4265-A142-4E19-99AE-6CC7E44F995C/0 /Sex_Work_in_Asia_July2001.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Ministerial Statement: Second Asia-Pacific Ministerial Meeting on HIV/AIDS 11 July 2004, Bangkok Thailand, 11 July 2004, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.ias.se/bangkok/admin/images/upload/573.pdf) [ Details... ]
- National Policy on Maternal Health, Ministry of Health, Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh, n/d. (Also available at http://www.bangladeshgateway.org/meternalhealth.php) [ Details... ]
- UNGASS Indicators Country Report Template: Bangladesh National AIDS Committee, Reporting Period January 2003 - December 2005, UNAIDS, n/d, 23 pp. (Also available at http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2006 /2006_country_progress_report_bangladesh_en.pdf) [ Details... ]
- HIV/AIDS Indicators Country Report: Bangladesh 1996/1997 - 1999/2000, This report is generated from the HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database (http://www.measuredhs.com/hivdata/start.cfm)., HIV/AIDS Survey Indicators Database, n/d, 6 pp. (Also available at http://www.measuredhs.com/hivdata/reports/pdf_temp /B145E03C-1143-E773-EBFB88A84FABA741.pdf) [ Details... ]
- 2008 UNGASS Country Progress Report: Bangladesh, National AIDS/STD Programme (NSAP) Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Reporting Period: January 2006-December 2007
Submission date: 27 January 2008, Dhaka, 27 January 2008, 42 pp. (Also available at http://data.unaids.org/pub/Report/2008 /bangladesh_2008_country_progress_report_en.pdf) [ Details... ] - Aceijas, Carmen; Stimson, Gerry V; Hickman, Matthew; Rhodes, Tim; on behalf of the United Nations Reference Group on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care among IDU in Developing and Transitional Countries, Global Overview of Injecting Drug Use and HIV Infection Among Injecting Drug Users, AIDS. 18 (17): 2295-2303, November 19, 2004., Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour (CRDHB), Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK, 2004, 8 pp. (Also available at http://www.aidsonline.com/pt/re/aids /pdfhandler.00002030-200411190-00010.pdf;jsessionid= GftJKJb8n8v62ZFc6CRKT8QrD1ZmfpMXl42yvzTtLgMpQn2h8CZ1!-1734750035!-949856144!8091!-1) [ Details... ]
- ActionAid, Positive Voices: Emerging Governance Issues on HIV and AIDS in Asia, ActionAid, April 2006, 135 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Aggleton, Peter; Elaine Chase; Kim Rivers; Paul Tyrer, Innovative Approaches to HIV Prevention: Selected Case Studies, UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, October 2000, 55 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, Scaling Up Provision of Anti-retrovirals to Injecting Drug Users and Non-injecting drug users in Asia, World Health Organization "3 x 5" initiative, AHRN, IHRA, WHO, Chiang Mai, 2004, 37 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Akhter, Halida Hanum, Commitment for Action: Assessing Leadership for Confronting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Across Asia - Focus on Bangladesh, POLICY Project, January 2005, 43 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/PoliticalCommitment/BangladeshPC.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting, HIV/AIDS and Development in Asia and the Pacific: A Lengthening Shadow, Commonwealth of Australia, Melbourne, 9-10 October 2001, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.ahrn.net/library_upload/uploadfile/ICAAPMinisterialStatement.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting, Ministerial Statement - Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting: 9-10 October 2001, Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting, Melbourne, 2001, 4 pp. (Also available at http://www.ahrn.net/library_upload/uploadfile/ICAAPMinisterialStatement.pdf) [ Details... ]
- 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... ]
- Barkat, Abul and Majid Murtaza, Adolescent Reproductive Health in Bangladesh: Status, Policies, Programs, and Issues, POLICY Project, January 2003, 34 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/countryreports/ARH_Bangladesh.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Bhuyan, Anita, Commitment for Action: Assessing Leadership for Confronting the HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Lessons Learned from Pilot Studies in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Vietnam, POLICY Project, June 2005, 46 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/politicalcommitment/PC_Synthesis.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Bowtell, William, Australia's Response to HIV/AIDS 1982-2005, Lowy Institute for International Policy, May 2005, 77 pp. (Also available at http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=289) [ Details... ]
- Commission on AIDS in Asia, Redefining AIDS in Asia: Crafting an Effective Response - Report of the Commission on AIDS in Asia, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 26 March 2008, 258 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Dowsett, Gary; Jeffrey Grierson and Stephen McNally, A Review of Knowledge About the Sexual Networks and Behaviours of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Asia, ARCSHS - Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Melbourne, May 2006, 92 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Drew, Roger, Keeping the Promise? A Study of Progress Made in Implementing the UNGASS Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS in Seven Countries, Panos, Panos, May 2006, 38 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- FHI - Family Health International, What Drives HIV in Asia?: A Summary of Trends in Sexual and Drug-Taking Behaviours, FHI, 2001, 61 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Hardee, Karen, Pamela Pine and Lauren Taggert Wasson, Adolescent and Youth Reproductive Health in the Asia and Near East Region: Status, Issues, Policies, and Programs, POLICY Project, October 2003, 57 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/generalreport/ARH_ANE.pdf) [ Details... ]
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Vulnerability and the HIV Epidemic in Bangladesh, Cambodia and Sri Lanka: The Role of Participatory Community Assessments in Mobilising and Developing More Effective HIV Prevention, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, London, March 1999, 40 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Working with Men, Responding to AIDS: Gender, Sexuality and HIV - A Case Study Collection, International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2003, 68 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- International Planned Parenthood Federation, The Power of Prevention: Stories from JTF Projects in Africa and Asia, International Planned Parenthood Federation, 2003, 52 pp. (Also available at http://aidsportal.org/store/445.pdf) [ Details... ]
- IOM Bangkok, HIV/AIDS and Populations Mobility: Overview of the IOM Global HIV/AIDS Programme 2006, International Organization for Migration, 2006, 20 pp. (Also available at http://www.old.iom.int/iomwebsite/Publication /ServletSearchPublication?event=detail&id=5131) [ Details... ]
- Jenkins, Carol, Female Sex Worker HIV Prevention Projects: Lessons Learnt from Papua New Guinea, India and Bangladesh, UNAIDS, Geneva, November 2000, 130 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Kamarulzaman, Adeeba, Harm Reduction in Asia: No More Time to Wait, 8th International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific, Colombo 19-23 August 2007, August 2007, 34 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Kelley, Laura M., and Nicholas Eberstadt, Behind the Veil of a Public Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS in the Muslim World, NBR Special Report, NBR - The National Bureau of Asian Research, Seattle, June 2005, 18 pp. (Also available at http://www.nbr.org/publications/specialreport/pdf/SR9.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Khan, Shivananda; Aditya Bondyopadhyay, From the Front Line, The impact of social, legal and judicial impediments to sexual health promotion, and HIV and AIDS related care and support for males who have sex with males in Bangladesh and India: a study report, Naz Foundation, Naz Foundation, 2005-6, 57 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Morshed, Sakiul Millat, Pre-departure, Reintegration and Policy Advocacy in the Migration Process, UNDP South & Southwest Asia Project on HIV & Development, October 2001, 16 pp. [ Details... ]
- Moses, Stephen; James F. Blanchard; Han Kang; Faran Emmanuel; Sushena Reza Paul; Marissa L. Becker; David Wilson; Mariam Claeson, AIDS in South Asia: Understanding and Responding to a Heterogeneous Epidemic, The World Bank, Washington, 2006, 131 pp. (Also available at http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/SOUTHASIAEXT /0,,contentMDK:21019386~pagePK:146736~piPK:146830~theSitePK:223547,00.html) [ Details... ]
- O'Gorman, Patrick & Paul Hardacre, Documentation of Best Practices and Needs Assessment of Service Providers in South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Countries, Final Report, AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, Chiang Mai, December 2004, 245 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Open Society Institute Public Health Program, Civil Society Perspectives on TB/HIV Policy, A preview of forthcoming reports on TB policy in Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, Tanzania and Thailand., Open Society Institute, 2006, 36 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Panos South Asia, UNGASS Monitoring: Civil Society Perspectives: Bangladesh, Panos, 2006, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Pendzich, Margaret, Reproductive Health Case Study: Bangladesh, POLICY Project, September 1998, 28 pp. (Also available at http://www.policyproject.com/pubs/countryreports/bang2.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Regional Task Force on Drug Use and HIV Vulnerability, Preventing HIV/AIDS Among Drug Users: Case studies from Asia, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; UNODC - United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; AHRN - Asian Harm Reduction Network, 2003, 87 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- Reid, G; and Costigan, G., Revisiting 'the Hidden Epidemic': a situation assessment of drug use in Asia in the context of HIV/AIDS, The Centre for Harm Reduction, The Burnet Institute, The Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research & Public Health, Fairfield, January 2002. (Also available at http://www.chr.asn.au/resources/libraryservices/docdownload/revisiting/list) [ Details... ]
- Reid, Gary and M. Ziya Uddin, National Harm Reduction Strategy for Drug Use and HIV 2004-2010, Final Draft, NASP - National AIDS/STD Programme DGHS, MOHFW, December 2006, 44 pp. [ Details... ]
- SAARC - Member States of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, The New Delhi Consensus: Delivering Commitments on HIV/AIDS, Children and Young People in South Asia, New Delhi, 20 September 2004, 8 pp. (Also available at http://www.unicef.org/rosa /FINAL_-__DelhiConsensusOnChildrenYP_and_HIV20sept.doc) [ Details... ]
- Sethi, Geeta and Smarajit Jana, Guidelines for Behavior Change Interventions to Prevent HIV-Sharing Lessons from an Experience in Bangladesh, Based on Applying learning from Sonagachi, India, Best Practice Collection from the Region, UNAIDS South Asia Inter Country Team, UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS Inter Country Team for South Asia, New Delhi, 2003, 197 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- SHARAN and UNAIDS - The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Report of the Conference on Injecting Drug Use of Pharmaceuticals and the HIV Epidemic in the South Asia Region: 11-12 December, 2006 | New Delhi, India, UNAIDS, New Delhi, 2008, 71 pp. (Also available at http://www.unaids.org.in/new /Publications_PharmaceuticalInjectingInSouthAsia.pdf) [ Details... ]
- South Asian Research and Development Initiative, Vulnerability Assessment of HIV/AIDS Within Trade Unions, SARDI/UNDP Innovative Partnerships Reducing Migrant Workers Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in South Asia, UNDP, 2004, 80 pp. (Also available at http://www.undp.org/hiv/docs/alldocs /Asia%20-%20Vulnerability%20Assessment%20of%20HIV-AIDS%20Within%20Trade%20Unions%20(2004).pdf) [ Details... ]
- Subramanian, K. S., Impact of Conflict on HIV/AIDS in South Asia: a background paper, August 2002, 85 pp. (Also available at http://aidsportal.org/store/770.pdf) [ Details... ]
- Swaminathan, Hema, Nandita Bhatla and Swati Chakraborty, Women's Property Rights as an AIDS Response: Emerging Efforts in South Asia, ICRW - International Center for Research on Women, 2007, 12 pp. (Also available at http://www.icrw.org/docs/2007-property-rights-south-asia.pdf) [ Details... ]
- The Commonwealth Secretariat, The Commonwealth Secretariat HIV and AIDS Strategic Framework 2007-2009, Pro-Book Publishing Limited, London, 2007, 46 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- TREAT Asia, MSM and HIV/AIDS Risk in Asia: What Is Fueling the Epidemic Among MSM and How Can It Be Stopped?, TREAT Asia (amfAR - Foundation for AIDS Research), August 2006, 85 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNAIDS, HIV and Men Who Have Sex With Men in Asia and the Pacific, UNAIDS Best Practice Collection, (UNAIDS/06.25E), UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, September 2006, 72 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNAIDS - Joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS, Costing Guidelines for HIV/AIDS Intervention Strategies, ADB-UNAIDS Study Series: Tool 1, For use in estimating Resource Needs, Scaling-up and Strategic Planning in the Asia/Pacific region, 1st edn, ADB - Asian Development Bank, UNAIDS, Geneva, February 2004, 54 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, Facilitating Safe Mobility: Towards a Regional Strategy, An Analysis of the HIV Vulnerability of Migrant Workers In and From South Asia, UNDP, 2001, 31 pp. (Also available at http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/undp_2001__facilitating_saf.pdf) [ Details... ]
- UNDP - United Nations Development Programme, Law, Ethics and HIV/AIDS in South Asia: A study of the legal and social environments of the epidemic in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, UNDP, n/d, 46 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNDP & Sahara, Empowerment for Greater Involvement of People Living with HIV/AIDS in South Asia, UNDP, n/d, 28 pp. (Also available at http://www.youandaids.org/unfiles/gipa_report.pdf) [ Details... ]
- UNDP HIV and Development Project, South and Southwest Asia, Snapshots of GIPA: the Greater Involvement of People Living With HIV/AIDS in South Asia: An Interim Report, UNDP, 2003, 24 pp. (Also available at http://www.undp.org/hiv/docs/alldocs /Asia%20-%20Snapshots%20of%20GIPA%20-%20Greater%20Involvement%20of%20People%20Living%20with%20HIV-AIDS%20in%20South%20Asia%20(2003).pdf) [ Details... ]
- UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme, No Safety Signs Here: Research Study on Migration and HIV Vulnerability from Seven South and North East Asian Countries, Asia Pacific Migration Research Network, United Nations Development Programme, November 2004, 149 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme, Population Mobility in Asia: Implications for HIV/AIDS Action Programme, Population Movement Development and HIV/AIDS: Looking Towards the Future, UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme, April 2000, 126 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNDP South East Asia HIV and Development Programme, Mapping Made Easy: A Guide to Understanding and Responding to HIV Vulnerability, UNDP, UNESCO, World Bank, UN World Food Programme, Family Health International, USAID, International Organization for Migration, World Vision International, October 2004, 66 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and UNAIDS - Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, EDUCAIDS: Towards a Comprehensive Education Sector Response - A Framework for Action, UNESCO, Paris, September 2006, 25 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- UNICEF, Faith-Motivated Actions on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Care for Children and Young People in South Asia: A Regional Overview, UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund Regional Office for South Asia, December 2003, 30 pp. (Also available at http://www.unicef.org/uniteforchildren/knowmore/files/ROSA_faith_study.pdf) [ Details... ]
- UNICEF ROSA - United Nations Children's Fund Regional Office for South Asia, Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Asia - A Synthesis of Current Global, Regional and National Thinking and Research, April 2007, 21 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- United Nations Development Programme, HIV/AIDS and Development in South Asia 2003, Regional Human Development Report, UNDP, 2003, 218 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- United Nations Development Programme Regional HIV and Development Programme for Asia Pacific, Human Trafficking and HIV: Exploring Vulnerabilities and Responses in South Asia, Embargoed Til 22 August, 2007, UNDP Regional HIV and Development Programme for Asia Pacific, Colombo, 2007, 72 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Young People - Partners in HIV/AIDS Prevention, UNESCAP, Thailand, 2003, 91 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- WHO - Regional Office for South-East Asia, Expanding Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment: A Strategic Framework for Action at Country Level, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, New Delhi, 2004, 25 pp. (Also available at http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/Publications_sea-aids-145.pdf) [ Details... ]
- WHO - World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region, WHO - World Health Organization, 2001, 100 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- WHO - World Health Organization, HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific Region 2003, World Health Organization, 2004, 120 pp. (Also available at http://www.wpro.who.int/NR/rdonlyres/11ED3283-9821-43BE-9B73-B3444A3DADE6/0 /HIV_AIDS_Asia_Pacific_Region2003.pdf) [ Details... ]
- WHO - World Health Organization, Towards Adulthood: Exploring the Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents in South Asia, WHO, Geneva, 2003, 242 pp. (Also available at http://www.who.int/reproductive-health/publications/towards_adulthood /towards_adultwood.pdf) [ Details... ]
- WHO - World Health Organization, Gender and Women's Health, Violence Against Women and HIV/AIDS: Setting the Research Agenda, Meeting Report Geneva, 23-25 October 2000, WHO - World Health Organization, Geneva, 2001, 33 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- WHO - World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia, HIV/AIDS in the South-East Asia Region, WHO - World Health Organization, New Delhi, March 2007, 54 pp. (Also available at http://www.searo.who.int/LinkFiles/AIDS_SEARO-Report07.pdf) [ Details... ]
- World Bank, HIV/AIDS in South Asia, The World Bank, May 2005, 4 pp. [ PDF File | Details... ]
- World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, Scaling Up HIV/AIDS: Prevention, Care and Treatment - Report of the National AIDS Programme Managers' Meeting, Bangkok, Thailand, 10-11 July 2004, World Health Organization Regional Office for South-East Asia, 2004, 54 pp. (Also available at http://w3.whosea.org/LinkFiles/Publications_aids-151.pdf) [ Details... ]
Sources used to compile this entry: UNAIDS; World Bank World Development Indicators Database.
Prepared by: susan chong
Created: 16 June 2004, Last modified: 25 August 2008