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141 Bangladeshis die of AIDS so far in 2016

Xinhua, December 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

Bangladeshi Health Minister Mohammed Nasim said on Thursday that 141 Bangladeshi people have died of AIDS and 587 more become newly infected with HIV/AIDS so far this year.

Speaking at an event on the occasion of the World AIDS Day, the minister said, "This year 141 people in the country died of AIDS."

Although still considered as an HIV low prevalence country, the UN children's fund UNICEF said Bangladesh remains extremely vulnerable to an HIV epidemic given its dire poverty, overpopulation, gender inequality and high levels of transactional sex and a sex network among the population.

The first case of HIV/AIDS in Bangladesh was detected in 1989. Since then thousands of cases of HIV/AIDS have been reported in the South Asian country. Endit