The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: The Role of Public Administration in Response to HIV/AIDS

Mahmood, Shakeel Ahmed Ibne, Southern Business Review

Prologue

As the Human ImmunoDeficiency Virus, the cause of AIDS, continues to spread in many parts of the world, women are now said to constitute an increasingly large proportion of those infected worldwide.

This statistic has mainly been attributed to the fact that until lately, women did not have an independent method of protection by which they could help shield themselves from both pregnancy and infection of sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV.

Violence against women and girls is defined in the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women as

... any form of gender based violence, that results in, or is likely to …

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Publication information: Article title: The Socio-Economic Impact of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh: The Role of Public Administration in Response to HIV/AIDS. Contributors: Mahmood, Shakeel Ahmed Ibne - Author. Journal title: Southern Business Review. Volume: 30. Issue: 1 Publication date: Fall 2004. Page number: 25+. © College of Business Administration, Georgia Southern College Summer 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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