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Trafficking & HIV/AIDS is interrelated


In 2005 there were nearly 200 million international migrants in the world of which 95 million were female migrants (49.6 per cent). And Bangladesh had been the ninth largest human exporting country, long with Bangladesh some other countries including China, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand have also been the safe haven for human trafficking.

In Southeast Asia, most trafficking victims are forced into prostitution, though others are trafficked for bonded labor, domestic work, forced marriages, adoptions, and more recently to work for begging gangs in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh is a source country for human trafficked for the purposes of sexual abuse and involuntary servitude. Bangladesh is one of the countries in the world in which the rate of trafficking is very high. Because of the hidden nature of this crime of trafficking, reliable statistics are hard to come out. Despite efforts to check human trafficking at various levels, between 10,000 and 20,000 women and children are trafficked from Bangladesh every year. Girls from villages are trafficked, the majority of whom are teen-age who are trafficked for $ 1000 and are sold to brothels for sex work.

All over in Bangladesh, poverty, as well as the breakdown of traditional livelihoods, the lack of education and skills for female and children, natural disasters, the breakdown of families from political situations, the low social status of female and young girls, and gender discrimination contributes to the trafficking phenomenon. Lows complexity and poor enforcement of trafficking laws are also cited as factors contributing to trafficking in the area.

Traffickers were frequently from the country or India, and had links to brothels in India. In some cases parents or relatives sold women and girls into sex industries. NGOs' unverified estimates suggested that 50 percent of victims were lured to India with the promise of good jobs and marriage, 40 percent were sold by a family member, and 10 percent were kidnapped. During the year the government identified 26 high-priority districts as source areas of trafficking and established anti-trafficking task forces in nine districts of the country. Women and youth displaced from homes as a result of the insurgency were especially vulnerable to being trafficked.

As mention by AIDS researcher Mr. Mohammad Khairul Alam, “Trafficking & HIV/AIDS is interrelated, especially women and girls are trafficking for use of sexual industry. Most of trafficking girls would face several physical & sexual abuses. When a girl or women newly enrolls a sex industry, she tries to safe herself heard & soul, but most of the time they couldn’t free her.”

Women and girls trafficked to India are at high risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), including HIV/AIDS, while India is the second largest HIV/AIDS infected country in the world, and it is a neighboring country of Bangladesh, It is estimated that half of the female sew worker in Mumbai brothels who are under the age of 18 years have been infected with HIV. A recent survey in Bangladeshi track drivers by Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation, found that 80% track driver in Bangladesh have no clear concept of HIV or AIDS. But 90% respond it is a deadly disease. Bangladesh is a country rounded off three sides by HIV/AIDS bloom neighboring country India and the existence of the Bay of Bengal on the other side. Every day a number large of people cross border movement take place both officially and also illegally. Due to reason of that great chance to spread out HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh.



// Dr. Kazi Fatema Afroje //
// Mymenshing Medical College //
// Mymenshing, Bangladesh //
// Afroje@37.com //

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