AIDS infested India - deadly threat to Bangladesh

[DesiGuy]

It isn't our national interest to help Bharat either in economy or strategic maneuver. Bharatis problem is our gain. If you get my drift.

you are really smoking more than just a cigarette.

 

[DesiGuy]

Anyways, ramadan mubark ho sab muslims bros ko.

 

[Skies]

@ Rajput Warrior and British_Bangladeshi

Brothers, I'm pro-PK and always PK's well wisher. I was just answering to somebozo at post # 230. Most of BDmen like PK but I do not know why many PK-bros can not accept positive and constructive criticize about PK from a BDman. It's their mis-notion if PK-bros think we hate/dislike them while we criticize them. If their own countrymen can criticize then why not others if that is constructive? Whatever, lets leave it.

May they overcome their problems, may the light sighted soon at end of dark tunnel, Ameen.

 

[QADRI]

@ Rajput Warrior and British_Bangladeshi

Brothers, I'm pro-PK and always PK's well wisher. I was just answering to somebozo at post # 230. Most of BDmen like PK but I do not know why many PK-bros can not accept positive and constructive criticize about PK from a BDman. It's their mis-notion if PK-bros think we hate/dislike them while we criticize them. If their own countrymen can criticize then why not others if that is constructive? Whatever, lets leave it.

May they overcome their problems, may the light sighted soon at end of dark tunnel, Ameen.

Bro. there are some opposition exists in every part of the world but thats not important...in reality Pakistanis also like Bangladeshis. Pakistan had a great gift of M.M. Alam who is Bangladeshi. No matter who is resisting Pak-Ban brotherhood but still 98 percent of Pakistanis love Bangladesh.

 

[TopCat]

Pakistan still has RULE OF LAW,ALL INSTITUTION WORKING and if i may say Pakistan is still 10 TIMES better then bengladesh! in everysense, Infrastructure,institutions,Defence,educational institutes etc.

The only problem is TERRORISM thts coz of Taliban.
Which are dying.And Inshallah in near future we will be back on the track which was derailed back in 2008!

My best wishes for you. Please dont bring comparison here.. It will get nasty..

 

[somebozo]

Well we dont have anything against Bangladeshis neither they have it against us. We even accecpted their 1971 revolt on good will basis. But BD politics are dirty and very anti-Pakistan so expect some flaming when it comes to politics. BD apparently has apartheid politics which political parties are stooges of forigen hand and do not represent public sentiments.

We have an old BD man working as a chef. He by his own accord particiapted in mukti bahini during 71 upon encouragement by his father however later ironically he ended up working in Pakistan for 13 years at five star facility due to economic hardship in post sepration BD. These days he has BD news channel in kitchen and a constant spew of abuse towards AL and India.

I havent asked him yet about his views towards sepration of east pakistan or role of mujeeb because once he starts, he is a never ending record which deters all my ambitions. But still I can estimate a lot of his feelings

Sometimes i feel sorry that our own criminal negliance towards east pakistan has wrecked havoc on lives of Begalis despite being our country men. Until they were left vunerable to open manipulation by RAW. Now they are left with messed up state of affairs and no clue about what really happened. They are geniously anxious about Indian cultural domination slowly wiping away their sovergeinity.

 

[TopCat]

Well we dont have anything against Bangladeshis neither they have it against us. We even accecpted their 1971 revolt on good will basis. But BD politics are dirty and very anti-Pakistan so expect some flaming when it comes to politics. BD apparently has apartheid politics which political parties are stooges of forigen hand and do not represent public sentiments.

BD politics has nothing to do with Pakistan. It does not buy any vote neither it has any significance anymore. Anti Indian sentiment is there since 1947 the way it still exist in Pakistan. It did buy votes but it loosing its apeal because people who knew India already dead. Newere generation consider India like any other foreign country and goes same for Pakistan. But our independece war was against Pakistan army so it does have its own place of debate.

We have an old BD man working as a chef. He by his own accord particiapted in mukti bahini during 71 upon encouragement by his father however later ironically he ended up working in Pakistan for 13 years at five star facility due to economic hardship in post sepration BD. These days he has BD news channel in kitchen and a constant spew of abuse towards AL and India.

I havent asked him yet about his views towards sepration of east pakistan or role of mujeeb because once he starts, he is a never ending record which deters all my ambitions. But still I can estimate a lot of his feelings

There are Pakistanis who works in Bangladesh will talk same $hit about PK army in front of Bengalis about that time.

Sometimes i feel sorry that our own criminal negliance towards east pakistan has wrecked havoc on lives of Begalis despite being our country men. Until they were left vunerable to open manipulation by RAW. Now they are left with messed up state of affairs and no clue about what really happened. They are geniously anxious about Indian cultural domination slowly wiping away their sovergeinity.

For GODS sake its a country and every intellegence agencies are active here. Be it RAW, ISI or CIA. Dont think that our DGFI are piece of Shiiit.

 

[Maira La]

NOTHING POSITIVE

- AIDS & THE INDIAN WOMAN



The fact that over 19 lakh women in India are living with HIV AIDS is setting off alarm bells in the Indian medical fraternity – especially since more than 90percent of these are married women in monogamous relationships…



-More married women in India are at risk of getting AIDS than *** workers

-India is about to be hit by the worst AIDS epidemic in the world

-Research groups are now calling AIDS in India ‘a woman’s disease’

It is easy to misjudge the challenge of HIV/AIDS. Rarely perceived as a major public health issue in India, AIDS has taken on nightmarish proportions in recent years. The large population, low literacy and even lower levels of awareness has made AIDS one of the most challenging public health problems ever faced by the country.

The rising number of women (over 1.9 million at the last count) afflicted with AIDS is setting off alarm bells in the Indian medical fraternity – especially since more than 90 percent of these are married women and are in a monogamous relationship.

In the light of these statistics, Breakthrough, a human rights organisation has launched a media campaign titled What Kind Of Man Are You? The campaign highlights the rising incidence of married women infected by the AIDS virus by their husbands.

Crusade Against AIDS

As part of the crusade against AIDS, popular television stars Mandira Bedi and Samir Soni have joined hands with Breakthrough and both feature in a music video, Maati. sung by Shubha Mudgal, Maati talks about a pregnant woman who discovers she is HIV positive because of her husband’s promiscuity.

Apart from this, Breakthrough has been organizing various workshops to provide *** education to the general public. It also has an SMS facility through which people’s queries are answered, informing them about the treatment and care for the infected.

The organisation has also launched an intensive multimedia campaign to focus public attention on the growing problem of HIV AIDS. The message is being conveyed through music videos, eye catching advertisements in newspapers, radio and television that are being directed by renowned adman Prasun Joshi. The different visuals have the same theme - a woman asking her husband to protect her by using a condom.

The campaign aims to empower women in an exceedingly patriarchal society, enabling them to discuss sexuality freely with their husbands and encouraging the use of condoms among men.

Negotiating Safe ***

According to Mallika Dutt, founder and executive director Breakthrough, "It’s a challenge for any woman to negotiate safe *** with her husband. Many times the request for a condom may be interpreted as an accusation of promiscuity against the husband. Our campaign helps married women to understand the need for safe *** and how to voice their opinion."

Both Sameer Soni and Mandira Bedi feel that the responsibility and the guilt that a man feels on infecting his innocent wife, is brought out beautifully in the video, directed by Arjun Bali.. "The fact that television and music are so popular with the masses will help spread the message much faster in a populated country like India, than workshops and prevention measures targeting small groups of people," says Soni.

Until recently HIV education programmes targeted only the high-risk population such as truck drivers, drug users and *** workers but the reality is that an increasing number of married women are at risk. They are ignorant about the dangers they face and hence are easy targets of infection.

Most Indian women are completely uninformed about *** and sexual health practices at the time of marriage. Under great pressure to produce children (particularly sons), the use of condoms and other contraceptives does not arise. The low economic and social status of women renders them unable to have much of a say in *** and thus, they cannot suggest the use of a condom which in turn can lead to their becoming infected with the HIV virus.

Cultural practices and outdated beliefs still plague the Indian society and there is rampant discrimination against women. A woman is labelled "immoral and loose" if detected with the deadly virus. Subjected to ill treatment and isolation of the worst kind, these women are faced with no family support, loss of job opportunities and an extremely low economic status.

Worse, there is lack of access to treatment and medical facilities for these women.

Besides they can also be subject to increased violence. Voiceless, disgraced and ostracized, these women sometimes end up being branded as untouchables or worse being killed by their own family members

Preventive Measures

In India *** is rarely discussed openly. However it is important to educate and inform the people. According to many health experts, the future course of AIDS in Asia will be set by India's example. *** education in schools to promote the magnitude of safe *** is essential. Yet over 42 percent of boys and 69 percent of girls of 15 years and older do not go to school. To educate them mass media drives and *** education workshops for the general public are essential.

Allopathic medicines like AZT used in combination with other drugs form the main treatment for AIDS related diseases. Also early diagnosis and effective treatment can help in prolonging life expectancy.

Research is currently underway for a cure and to develop effective and cheaper female condoms that will put the power of protection against HIV in the woman’s hands. But until then the only way to contain the spread of the disease is cooperation by the male partner.

Says Mallika Dutt, "India needs to follow the example of Brazil in aggressively pursuing AIDS prevention and treatment as the country is on the edge of a pandemic that might make India resemble one of those African nations where one in three people is afflicted with the deadly HIV AIDS virus.


(indian source: AIDS_and_married_women_India)

 

[Skies]

In one year, 2,500 West Bengal girls forced into sexual slavery

Estimates show that in the course of one year, 2,500 teenage girls were trafficked from West Bengal, reports MNN.

"India is a hotbed for trafficking. There are approximately 3 million trafficked victims in India. It could be up to 50,000 women and girls trafficked into India annually," says ‘Sharon' from the Evangelical Free Church of America's ReachGlobal. Most of these victims are trafficked for ***.

West Bengal is a particularly high risk area. For one thing, the region is filled with border towns, perfect spots to smuggle victims into the country. Furthermore, it is an extremely poor area of India, which intensifies the need for families to find alternate ways to generate income.

In some cases, this can mean selling their daughters. Sons are expected to provide for the family eventually. Daughters, in contrast, cost the family something. A dowry is to be given for her hand in marriage. It is often more financially viable to either sell a daughter to help feed the rest of the family, or to send her off to work in the city and send money regularly. Unfortunately, families don't always know that the jobs their daughters are offered in factories are only facades for sexual enslavement. Most mothers and fathers have no idea that the reason they have not heard from their daughter in so long is that she is now raped for pay in a dirty brothel.

"From these villages [in West Bengal], girls are disappearing," Sharon confirms. "I'm not talking about one here and one there, I'm talking about hundreds of girls being coerced every year and ending up in the cities and the brothels. When we talk about a brothel in India, we're not talking about a small place of 25 people. In Mumbai, they have two brothels that each have 50,000 people in it."

The women are not always taken so far. One brothel in West Bengal boasts 10,000 girls. The large brothels make up red light districts in which men know they can go to satisfy their sexual appetites.

Situations are dire for the literally hundreds of thousands of girls and women trapped in lives of prostitution. God loves these women, and he loves justice. Clearly something must be done. India is one of the largest hubs for trafficking in the world, though, and it can be hard to know where to start.

One group has decided to focus on one issue at a time, but is ready to take on the next big project. Mukti (‘Deliverance') is a program which was formed by a ReachGlobal partner in India. Mukti has hired employees as well as volunteers who know the Lord and want to do something about the issue. Mainly, they have been going into West Bengali villages to prevent more women from being trafficked by educating families on the wiles of the *** trade.

Now Mukti is ready to move on to phase two: aftercare. ReachGlobal is partnered with a group called Freedom Firm, an organization which assists in rescuing and relocating rescued victims of sexual slavery. Victims are frequently from West Bengal originally, and Freedom Firm often tries to relocate the girls there. Mukti wants to make sure these girls can be placed in a safe environment to ensure that they never end up so mistreated again.

Mukti has plans for a girls school and a women's job training center just 20 km from the Bangladesh border. The training center will harness the skills in the women which are native to the region, such as embroidery and jewelry making. Mukti is run by devoted believers, who will without question be pouring the love of Christ into these women on a daily basis, telling them about the one who has truly never stopped loving them.

Mukti is taking their plan in stages so as not to create too big of a stir in West Bengal. The first phase of the project will only take $15,000. The ministry hopes to launch the new restorative program in February 2011.

S: Google The Head Line

 

[Skies]

India to screen incoming passengers for swine flu

Dhaka, Bangladesh (BNN)- Those, who intend to travel to India, are advised that Indian authorities continue to screen incoming passengers for influenza A (H1N1), Indian High Commission said.

As part of screening, there could be quarantine and hospitalization in case of detection of symptoms connected with flu, an Indian High Commission press statement said in the capital, Dhaka on Thursday.

For this purpose, 221 doctors and 111 paramedics have been deployed at 76 counters at all international airports in India, according to the statement.

A total of 20,07,408 passengers have been screened till June 16. Of the passengers, samples of 329 persons have been tested of which 35 have been tested positive for novel influenza A (H1N1).

Of these, only two are indigenous cases who got the infection from the positive cases traveled from abroad. The rest of the samples have been found negative for the novel virus.

Among the 329 tested, 109 were identified through health screening at international airports, 14 identified through contact tracing and the rest were samples from persons who have self reported.

Of the 35 cases, 12 have been discharged. Rests of the passengers are all stable and remain admitted in identified health facility, the High Commission said.

"The situation is being constantly monitored by Indian authorities," the statement noted.

BBN/SS/SI/AD-19June09-1:16 am (BST)

India to screen incoming passengers for swine flu


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So BD should screen for HIV patients from India tooooooooooo.

 

[Masterchief]

What was the need to revive this thread,if bangladeshis are so wary of india then they should act ,not talk

 

[Spring Onion]

India to screen incoming passengers for swine flu



India to screen incoming passengers for swine flu


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So BD should screen for HIV patients from India tooooooooooo.

Logically Yes. BD should arrange screening for the particular disease. There should be no shying away. rather i feel all countries should have screening process for foreigners for such diseases.

BD, Pakistan, India need to focus on it more than others keeping in view the sorry state of health and poverty in these parts its better to be cautious

 

[Skies]

What was the need to revive this thread,if bangladeshis are so wary of india then they should act ,not talk

If you can be worried about H1N1 then we are more worried about HIV.

 

[LaBong]

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So BD should screen for HIV patients from India tooooooooooo.

Sorry but is every Indian who goes to BD indulge into somekinda wild unprotected fcuk spree with Bdians?

Or BDians are vampire sucking up blood of Indians at sight! :s

I see you're worried about s@x-workers in West Bengal too. Shouldn't you be more worried about scores of Bangladeshis who come to Calcutta to get their appendix removed or knee fixed?

 

[LaBong]

If you can be worried about H1V1 then we are more worried about HIV.

H1V1 is spread through air unlike HIV which spread through semen and blood.

So much brouhaha about AIDS makes me think, BDians getting both in abundance from traveling Indians in their country.