HIV/AIDS is as the bubonic plague of our time. Though HIV/AIDS is
a talking point on street corners, many people still are not informed
scrupulously what HIV/AIDS absolutely means. They are not informed how
to keep safe themselves as well. In this regard gender literacy may play
an important role to make aware of HIV/AIDS.
Mainstreaming
gender touches on the statute, norms, customs and practices thoroughly
as the stepping stone to sustainable development. Gender equality
defines equality of treatment under the rule and neutrality of
opportunity for females and males. An essential fact is that women are
always struggling against both a virus and structured discrimination in
trying to conquer the threat of HIV/AIDS especially in the developing
country.
Women should be made campaign for their fundamental
rights. Women living with HIV/AIDS have to be able to develop their
inner beings and life skills that they may raise their voices in the
face of a huge number of impediments. It results in that they have the
courage to face a number of situations which raise the danger of HIV
infectivity by way of existing gender discrimination.
HIV/AIDS
increases acute threats to the education system over the years. It
affects the education programs and projects comprehensively. The
principle of present national curriculum has to highlight the learning
need issues linked to the HIV/AIDS epidemic prevention, such as general
health awareness, safe sex practices, coping with illness and death in
the family, lessening discrimination towards people living with HIV/AIDS
and enhancing life skills. Consequently it has an integrated impact on
ministries, departments, agencies, and policy makers liable for proper
scheduling and allocation of education resources and services.
The
Ministry of Education has to have a great inclination to take a number
of initiatives to prevent HIV/AIDS from spreading with the help of NGOs
to ensure community people's participation. In this case some NGOs are
already conducting various programs to achieve 'goal number 6' of MDG
which includes one target related to HIV/AIDS, namely to have halted the
epidemic by 2015 and begun to reverse its spread. For example Rainbow
Nari O Shishu Kallyan Foundation is a non government organization
conducting some HIV/AIDS related program. Rainbow Nari O Shishu Kallyan
Foundation has identified its various advocacy issues through
participatory procedure giving main concern to RTI/STD management
(including prevention of HIV/AIDS), training, sex education and
connected adolescent reproductive health initiatives, qualitative health
and related behavioral research, gender-based violence as well as male
participation in reproductive rights and gender equity. The aim of these
activities is to achieve a HIV/AIDS free Bangladesh.
This is the
time for Bangladesh to take strong initiatives to provide HIV/AIDS and
sex related education in the school context. Because many people are
still traditional, thinking sexuality is a private matter, they hesitate
to talk about it and young people have not sufficient knowledge about
HIV/AIDS.
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