HIV in Bangladesh - Is Time Running Out?: Background Document for the Dissemination of the Fourth Round (2002) of National HIV and Behavioural Surveillance

For many years Bangladesh has been able to escape the HIV/AIDS epidemic that is affecting countries all around us. Now the results of the fourth round of national surveillance indicate that the country has no reason to be complacent. In the central part of the country, there is an upsurge of HIV infection among injection drug users. Fortunately, the virus has remained at low prevalence among the other vulnerable groups under surveillance.