Different social and political organisations including Bangladesh Parliament Members Support Group (BPMSG), Association of Rural Development Bangladesh and Care-Bangladesh arranged various programmes to mark the day.

Only one in seven of the HIV-positive people in Asia has access to treatment, reveals a report of ActionAid Bangladesh.

The report criticises that most Asian governments lack the political will to allocate adequate resources to comprehensively fight Aids.

In the past year 1.1 million people were newly infected with HIV/Aids in Asia but the governments across the continent have still to wake up to the enormity of the impact on their people as well as their economies.

UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says in his message prior to Worlds Aids Day, "We have a clear plan of action to halt and reverse the spread of Aids."

Care-Bangladesh organises an elaborate programme that includes bringing out colourful processions in the city and in districts, holding discussions with the civil society, talk show on TV channels and publishing posters and banners.