A Report on the Rapid Assessment of Human Rights-barriers to HIV and TB services in Bangladesh

The assessment serves to document and review the situation in relation to the current human rights and gender related programmatic responses being implemented across the country, aimed at reducing barriers to services for key populations. For the purpose of this assessment the main key populations in Bangladesh include female sex workers (FSW), people who use drugs and populations with diverse sexual orientation, gender identity, and sexual characteristics and expression (SOGIESC) such as men who have sex with men (MSM), male sex workers (MSW) and Transgender people/Hijra/Third Gender (TG).