Between November 2023 and October 2024, 1,438 new cases of AIDS have been reported in Bangladesh. In the same period, 195 people have died from AIDS.
The first person in the country was diagnosed with HIV (AIDS virus) in 1989. Notably, this year marks the highest number of AIDS cases recorded in the country.
This data was provided by the National Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and AIDS/STD Programme (TB-L & ASP) under the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, 1 December, the Directorate General of Health Services is releasing various statistics related to AIDS in the country. The theme for this year’s World AIDS Day is “Take the rights path, my health, my right.”
While the number of AIDS cases has risen, the number of deaths from the disease has decreased this year. However, experts have noted an increase in infection rates among young people.
Moreover, the disease continues to spread among the Rohingya refugee population displaced from Myanmar, and transgender people. Experts believe that youth, transgender people, and the Rohingya population are particularly at risk.
The DGHS claims that the nation’s first HIV diagnosis occurred in 1989. Since then, AIDS-infected people have been found every year.
The overall trend has been increasing, with the exception of one or two years in which the number of infections declined. With the exception of 2020, when the Covid-19 epidemic struck, the number of HIV infections has risen during the previous ten years. The number of cases has increased by 162 this year, increasing the total to 1,438 from 1,276 last year.
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