Abstract
This paper identifies the vulnerable groups which have lower level of specific knowledge about transmission and ways of avoiding human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Majority of respondents, about 92% floating and 99% frequently moving, heard the name HIV/AIDS from various sources of media, but 52% floating and 31% frequently moving respondents do not know the fearfulness of HIV/AIDS. Electronic media is the most dominant source of hearing about HIV/AIDS. In this study, it was also found that uncontrolled and unsafe sexual relation is the main cause of HIV/AIDS (answer given by the respondents). Further, all the variables (respondents’ age, marital status, educational level and occupation) of contingency analysis were significantly associated with HIV/AIDS in frequently moving respondents but the same variables were not seen in floating respondents. In multivariate logistic analysis, we found that in case of frequently moving respondents, variables like respondents’ age, marital status, education and occupation exert significant effect on the knowledge about the fearfulness of HIV/AIDS; whereas in floating respondents, only education variable exerts significant effect on the knowledge about the fearfulness of HIV/AIDS. Key words: Human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), fearfulness, logistic regression analysis, floating and frequently moving.
Highlights
Bangladesh is passing through a period of demographic transition
Multiple logistic regression analysis (Table 5) was conducted to assess the knowledge of fearfulness of HIV/AIDS as a dependent variable (0 = if he/she does not know the fearfulness of HIV/AIDS and 1 = if he/she knows the fearfulness of HIV/AIDS) by some selected characteristics for both floating and frequently moving respondents
In the case of floating respondents (30 to 39 years), the result was 1.80 times more and (40 to 49 years, 50+ years age group) 0.891, 0.805 times less for those who have a knowledge about the fearfulness of HIV/AIDS than that of the respondents of 18 to 29 years age group, respectively
Summary
Bangladesh is passing through a period of demographic transition. The most distinctive demographic change is the shift of population from rural to urban areas; especially in Metropolitan cities. In Dhaka City, more than one million people every year in Bangladesh become urban dwellers in recent years This has resulted in a significant increase in the urban population, and has created thinning slums city centers and shantytowns in their peripheries. For this reason, urban poor females have been receiving attention, as they are the perpetuators of victims of human immunodeficiency virus/. HIV/AIDS has become national concern in Bangladesh, and the government has already developed a national strategy and an operational plan to address this need of the country (Sarkar, 2009). It is strongly needed to assess the current level of specific knowledge about HIV/AIDS transmission
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