National HIV Risk Reduction Strategy for Most At Risk and Especially Vulnerable Adolescents to HIV and AIDS in Bangladesh (2013–2015)

Bangladesh continues to have a low but concentrated AIDS epidemic with national HIV prevalence less than 0.1%. While the level of HIV infection remains generally low in the country, there are considerable vulnerabilities and risk that put children and adolescent at risk of infection. This has become important as the country has a large cohort of children and adolescent population under 18 years of age estimated at 45% of the total population.

The National HIV Risk Reduction Strategy for Most At Risk & Especially Vulnerable Adolescents to HIV & AIDS in Bangladesh (2013 – 2015) was informed by the result of the Mapping and Size Estimation of Most At Risk Adolescents in Bangladesh conducted in 2011 with support from UNICEF. This strategy emphasizes key actions to improve legislation, policy and programmes to reduce risk and protect MARA/EVA in Bangladesh from HIV and AIDS.