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Residence Sex Workers (RSWs) in Dhaka City is Vulnerable of HIV/AIDS.


Mohammad Khairul Alam
Executive Director
“Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation”
24/3 M. C. Roy Lane
Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh
Tel: 88028628908,
rainbowngo@gmail.com
www.plusbangla.com

Lately, prompted by the concern over the spread of HIV/AIDS, commercial sex workers have been the focus of a great deal of attention, first and foremost with the aim of promoting safe sex as a method of preventing disease. Even with the many groups active among sex workers, and despite the government’s obvious interest in the matter, there has been no correct consideration of the total number of people practicing the profession in Bangladesh. Rough estimates propose that there are well over 1,00,000 sex workers in the country, with the district of Dhaka, Chitagong, Khulna, and Shilet being considered “vulnerable zones of HIV/AIDS”.

If matters related to the safety of sex work and the rights of sex workers are to be addressed, it is significant first to recognize the extent of the industry, its demography as well as the conditions of work. One of the most systematic and coherent studies of the industry was recently carried out in Dhaka, a city of about eight million people.

Dhaka has a traditional profile different from other district. But as the HIV figures suggest, and as the survey confirms, the traditional image is only a veneer behind which lurk many secret dealings. The survey conducted by ‘Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ & ‘Association for Rural Development and Studies’ (ARDS) that has been working with sex workers and the gay community in Dhaka for close to 3 years, estimates that there are over five thousand commercial sex-workers in Dhaka. The Join survey actually maps 3000 of these sex workers in the city area.

This hidden business continues by four element sex workers, clients, brokers and broker’s agencies. The ‘Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ & Association for Rural Development and Studies (ARDS) jointly survey focuses on the attitude, behavior and practice of Commercial Sex Workers (CSWs) in Dhaka and classifies them into four categories. They are the Residence Sex Workers (RSWs), Street Sex Worker (SSWs), Hotel Sex Workers (HSWs) and Mobile Sex Workers (MSWs). Another two categories is also found such as Call Girls or Society Call Girls (who typically have a higher socio-economic profile and provide services to wealthier clients), this type is come out of Hotel (HSWs) & Mobile Sex Workers MSWs). And other type is Floating Sex Workers, who is also a mix group; it is a sub group of Street Sex Workers (SSWs) and Mobile Sex Workers (MSWs). On the other hand we can say all type Sex Worker in Dhaka City is Mobile Sex Workers without Residence Sex Workers.

Residence Sex Workers (RSWs) is another factor of Dhaka city. After withdrawal of the brothel from Dhaka and Narayanganj most of the prostitutes did not get any rehabilitation facilities and a large number of them still continuing Sex trade involving with residence in Dhaka city. In one sense they are venerable groups for HIV/AIDS. We can easily catch Brothel and Hotel sex workers. We can easily catch them who still sale sex in street, footpath, station, terminal etc. But it is critical to reach to a RSW without their nominated source (In Bengali called Dalal). RSW is spread in Dhaka city. All most in every location they run their business. But we can’t know them. They live in a house of flat as an ordinary family. Without reliable source they don’t speak out.

There are different types of RSW in Dhaka city. We can classify them mainly two types; One type is classified by their living condition or living styles or style of accommodation. In this class we find three types of RSW.
- High class - living luxuries house.
- Second or middle class – living normal house.
- Third lower class – living slum or tinny house.
Another type of RSWs live in a house but they sale their sex in other places, that means they wait for the call of client and meet them out of their residence. We can called them Society Call Girl/ Call Girl. Second type is they live in residence and some source (Dalal) who sends their client, and they sale sex in their own residence.

Third type is one or two person live in a house but they don’t sale sex. They know few sex workers near of their house. When client wants to meet some one (RSW) of them they call them. This type of sex workers is not professional.

This type is really astonishing. In this type some come from needy families but they are housewife. They are doing this when their husband is out of house (office, working place etc.). Some are doing this only for sexual recreation. May be their husband is out of house for a long time (out of country) or may be their husband doesn’t fulfill their sexual need. This type is also housewife. Other group is workingwomen – who work in several private firm or garments and most of them are unmarried. This type of sex workers doesn’t live in brothel to sale sex. They live like a family member.

It is more dangerous that 85% client & RSW do not use condom and they are ignorant about the danger of HIV/AIDS. Some higher Society Residence Call Girls use condom regularly. And rest of them in all type of residence sex worker uses it occasionally, but they use other methods to prevent poignancy. They have no proper idea that condom not only prevents poignancy but also it can prevent all kinds of STD/STI among HIV/AIDS. So it is now necessary that we have to encourage them to use condom must.

References: Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation, UNAIDS, WB

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Anonymous said...

HIV/AIDS condition so worrying in Bangladesh


Mohammad Khairul Alam
Executive Director
“Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation”
24/3 M. C. Roy Lane
Dhaka-1211, Bangladesh
Tel: 88028628908,
rainbowngo@gmail.com
www.plusbangla.com

AIDS posing a challenge to the mankind already claimed the lives of more than 40 million, an additional 14,000 are added everyday to this pool. Each year 3 million are dying of HIV/AIDS. According to WHO report, an estimated 42 million people throughout the globe currently is living with HIV. It is spread through contact with the blood or semen of a person infected with HIV. This can happen during unsafe sex (without condom). It can also happen when needles are shared with a person infected with HIV. People who inject drugs might get HIV if they share a needle with an infected person. HIV also spreads through blood transfusion. HIV is not spread by casual contact such as hugging, kissing, holding hands, sitting on toilet seats, or sharing clothing.

Recently, ‘Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation’ response to HIV/AIDS has focused mostly on three types of work in Bangladesh: community mobilization for prevention through the promotion of fidelity, condom-use and abstinence; advocacy on access to affordable treatments, targeted at medicine producers and international donor organizations; and work to ‘mainstream’ support to AIDS-affected individuals and communities into poverty mitigation work. HIV/AIDS has good relation between poverty and gender inequality. Without decline gender discrimination, poverty, all effort will destroy to prevent HIV/AIDS or sustainable development of this sector.

Campaigns to raise consciousness on HIV and AIDS have to go clear of the simple message of using condoms, and address deep-rooted gender inequality, which interpretation women to risks which are beyond their control.

In prevention strategies, adolescent girls do appear as a target group. The education sector, and schools in particular, should be often a major target for HIV/AIDS prevention programmes, via sex education and knowledge of condom-use. By the way we have to address or find out them who didn’t get chance to enroll of these institution. So we have to find out different strategy for those adolescent who are not in school to start with. In addition, health education programmes which aim to empower women and girls to use condoms often fail adequately to tackle the actual problems with imbalanced power relations. In addition, the desired changes in the behavior of adolescent girls and boys cannot happen without programmes addressing such underlying power relations not only in empowering girls to say no, but also in empowering boys, teachers and other adults to respect the human rights of girls. For example, health and education sectors can work together to develop prevention programmes in schools/colleges, which enhance awareness of gender inequality among boys and school/college staffs, as well as girls themselves. Such programmes also need to expand beyond the school boundaries, to reach adolescent girls and boys who do not attend school/college or school dropout. This could reduce girls’ continuing vulnerability to violence, coercive sex and HIV infection.

In many developing countries, poverty and gender discrimination are both strongly linked to the spread of HIV/AIDS. Gender and age analysis shows the ways in which women and girls of various ages are vulnerable to the infection, and in need of support to enable the survivors to overcome the economic and social effects of the epidemic. In responding to HIV/AIDS and poverty alleviation strategies are interconnected. Women empowerment can prevent gender discrimination, so this holistic policies and programmes to reduce poverty and address HIV/AIDS. For example, poverty leads women into unsafe sexual encounters, and speeds the onset of AIDS-related illnesses. Violence against women and girls is provoked in societies where high instability or conflict exists. All these factors contribute to the fact that there are more females than males newly infected every day. They also result in women being likely to contract HIV and fall sick with AIDS at a younger age than men.

Development organizations and policymakers have not yet completely taken into account the demographic changes of HIV and AIDS, although there is a growing awareness of the critical need to do this. Combined gender and age analysis is a necessary step to help development organization to design policies and programmes that decrease vulnerability to the epidemic, and militate against its impact on health and livelihoods.

References: Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation, UNAIDS, World Bank

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