Country Progress Report - Bangladesh: Global AIDS Monitoring 2018

At the 2011 United Nations General Assembly High-Level Meeting on AIDS that took place in June in New York, Member States adopted a new Political Declaration which contained new targets to effectively respond to the AIDS epidemic. The 2011 Political Declaration mandates UNAIDS to support countries in reporting back on progress made towards achieving the new commitments. It also provides for the UN Secretary-General to report regularly to the General Assembly on progress achieved in realizing these commitments.

Till 1st December 2017, 5,586 HIV positive cases were detected in Bangladesh of whom 865 were new. Most of the newly identified people living with HIV (PLHIV) were concentrated in Dhaka (54%), Chittagong (21%), Khulna (10%) and Sylhet divisions (6%).