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Miss Piya, 24, is very much conscious\u00a0about maintaining her sound health. As a communicator, she always shares her\u00a0best practices among her friends, partners and other target people for their\u00a0behavioral change.<\/p>\nMiss Piya, 24, is very much conscious\u00a0about maintaining her sound health. As a communicator, she always shares her\u00a0best practices among her friends, partners and other target people for their\u00a0behavioral change.<\/p>\n
Piya, a transgendered, now works as a peer educator at a local non-government development organization working for protecting the transgendered\u00a0and sexual minority population from HIV\/AIDS and other sexually transmitted\u00a0diseases (STDs).<\/p>\n
She says the vulnerable group people can protect them from various\u00a0diseases if they maintain health related rules and regulations as most of\u00a0them are habituated to high risk behaviors.<\/p>\n
Improving knowledge, creating awareness and behavior change can be\u00a0 effective means of reducing their vulnerabilities. “We always encourage our\u00a0clients to use condom during sex, but unfortunately many of them ignore the\u00a0request whimsically,” Sathi, 24, another transgendered, told BSS in an\u00a0exclusive interview in Rajshahi city.<\/p>\n
She said the transgender people have now become more or less aware about\u00a0prevention of the STDs and HIV\/AIDS or its transmission to their clients by\u00a0dint of various government and non-government level interventions. But,\u00a0hundred per cent condom promotions are not being taken place due to non-cooperation of the clients.<\/p>\n
Clients need to understand the importance of condom use. Education,\u00a0awareness and necessary information on the risks to HIV\/AIDS need to be\u00a0widely disseminated among not only sex workers but also clients to ensure\u00a0improved condom use.<\/p>\n
Sathi among many others in the metropolis, sell anal and oral sex as means\u00a0of their livelihood.<\/p>\n
Dr Ashraf Siddikey, Associate Professor of Sex, Skin and Venereal Diseases\u00a0of Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital (RMCH), said transgender is a\u00a0hormonal disability like different other physical and mental disorders. But,\u00a0most of the mainstream people have no idea about it. As a result, the\u00a0transgender people are subjected to disparity in society and also become\u00a0stigmatized and victimized frequently.<\/p>\n
He, however, said “Anal sex has ten times more risks of infection and\u00a0spread of sexual transmitted diseases including HIV\/AIDS for both sex-workers\u00a0and clients than that of vaginal ones”.<\/p>\n
Dr Siddikey said sex workers remain in one of the high risk groups, with\u00a0increasing rates of infections. Particularly, street sex workers are the most
\nvulnerable groups towards STDs. Unsafe sex and careless lifestyle become a\u00a0part of their life. Commercial sex plays a critical role in the heterosexual
\ntransmission of HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n
He mentioned that although there is low prevalence of HIV and AIDS in the\u00a0city, it is very vulnerable as the number of injecting drug users, floating\u00a0 male, female and transgender sex-workers are rising day by days and due to\u00a0high prevalence in the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n
Advocate Shamsunnanar Mukti, a human rights activist, stressed creating an\u00a0enabling environment in terms of proper treatment, free medicine, free\u00a0 condom, awareness programme and blood test for them.<\/p>\n
She articulated that their rights like human dignity, to work, equality\u00a0and non-discrimination, freedom from all sorts of abuse and manipulation,\u00a0equal access to education, security of person and property must be ensured.<\/p>\n
Mohona, president of Dinar Alo Hijra Sangha (DAHS), said they face many\u00a0problems, as they are still deprived of basic rights since their third gender\u00a0identity is yet to be implemented. “The government should give us third\u00a0gender identity through parliament,” she added.BSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miss Piya, 24, is very much conscious\u00a0about maintaining her sound health. As a communicator, she always shares her\u00a0best practices among her friends, partners and other target people for their\u00a0behavioral change. Piya, a transgendered, now works as a peer educator at a local non-government development organization working for protecting the transgendered\u00a0and sexual minority population from HIV\/AIDS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":33105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n