AIDS spreading fast

The epidemics in many countries of South Asia are now entering a new phase. One of the first populations to be affected by HIV in South Asia were injecting drug users. In areas where drug injection has been long established, such as Manipur in north-eastern India, HIV prevalence rates of over 40 percent have been recorded for several years. Several hundred thousand people infected during the explosive start of epidemics are becoming ill and undergoing treatment. The treatment of infections becomes a great burden for the country concerned, because HIV/AIDS requires long-term and effective medical care, periodical hospital-based care and trained manpower to provide comprehensive healthcare services. For countries where resources are scarce, easy access to treatment and care remain very difficult and prohibitive for many PLWHAs. (People Living with HIV/AIDS)
Globally, more or less 40 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS, Every day 14,000 people are getting infected and 6,000 are young men and women; approximately 95% live in severely resource-constrained settings. In 2005, there were 4.9 million new infections.
Sometimes poverty facilitates the spread of HIV/AIDS, but equally HIV/AIDS affects poverty. Generalizing HIV/AIDS into a problem of poverty will paralyse an effective and specific response to it. By nature of the population it affects, the economic and developmental impact of HIV/AIDS is likely to be much greater than that of other major infectious or deadly diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, diarrhoea etc.
Sex workers may be an at-risk population with circumstances and motivations that differ from other high-risk people.
Bangladesh has a high prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases, particularly among commercial sex workers; there are injection drug users and sex workers all over the country and low condom use in the general population. So HIV prevention research is particularly important for Bangladesh.