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Young Bangladeshis ignorant of how to protect themselves from HIV-AIDS
Young Bangladeshis are ignorant of how to protect them-| selves from HIV-AIDS virus, re-dt veals UNICEF calling it a "dangerous lack of knowledge", reports UNB.
As high as 96 per cent girls and 88 per cent boys are ignorant of how to protect themselves against this disease." Prof M Amanullah. State Minister for Health and Family Welfare, said quoting UNICEF’s "The Progress of Nations 2000" report released yesterday.
Although the prevalence rate in Bangladesh is still low at 0.01 per cent, special attention is needed to ensure that the rates remain low, he said while launching the report.
UNICEF representative in Bangladesh Shahida Azfar said girls, according to a survey conducted in 34 districts recently, do not think that healthy ami normal-looking people can spread HIV.
"Ignorance Is the most dangerous breeding ground for risk
And, Bangladesh cannot afford to take any chances," she told 4 the launching ceremony
The Progress of Nations 2000'. UNICEF’s annual flagship publication, was launched in the city on the same day as in Durban. Geneva. New York, and many other locations around the world.
The report estimated the prevalence rate at 0.01 per cent. Some 840 young women and 1.600 young men have so far been infected in Bangladesh from the age group of 15-24, it said.
In Bangladesh, 55 percent of children under the age of five are stunted. "This is the fourth highest rate in the world after Ethiopia. North Korea and Cambodia."
The report said Bangladesh is among the eight countries where two-thirds of children, who develop acute respiratory infection, do not get treatment and often die.
"But on a positive note. Bangladesh has made impres-
sive gains in salt iodisation coverage, reducing the prevalence and mental retardation to less than half in six years from 1993 to 1999."
Claudia Schiffer, special representative of the US Fund for UNICEF, described her experience of seeing the development programmes in Bangladesh as a positive one.
Despite all efforts in Bangladesh, more than 1 million children around one year of age do not receive all required vaccines at the appropriate time. I intend to advocate for more resources to be made available for immunisation programme in my work with UNICEF," she said.