Mostafa Kamal Majumder
The number of people infected with the AIDS-virus marked a steep rise by 333 from 874 to 1207 in just one year ending on December 1, but people at the helm of the AIDS-STD Programme of the government still see an ‘Window of opportunity’ to keep spread of the pandemic under control.
Some knowledgeable experts have expressed their reservations about the complacency and have termed it a potentially dangerous optimism about a volcano which is showing dangers of eruption. ‘What is the basis of this optimism?’ asked one such expert pointing at the detection of more than one fourth of the total HIV-infected cases in one year. [Read more]