Background: To quarantine the spreading possibility of HIV virus to general population boosting public awareness is must. But the proper awareness level is substantially low in Bangladesh. This
paper aims to identify the factors associated with the awareness regarding HIV/AIDS through abivariate and multivariate analysis using the data extracted from Bangladesh Demography and
Health Survey (BDHS) 1999–2000. Results: The findings of both techniques show that education, occupation, socioeconomic status, status of household food consumption, area of residence and media exposure have significant (p < 0.001) contribution in determining HIV/AIDS awareness level. It also reveals that media, particularly TV, and education play the leading role regarding this issue while the others have an indirect relationship. The odds of awareness among higher educated women and men were 4.69 and 77.73 times of no educated women and men respectively. In addition, both women and men those who
regularly watch TV were 8.6 times more likely to be aware about AIDS compared to those who
never watch TV. This phenomenon holds true for both women and men.
Conclusion: At this instant it is urgent to give emphasis on education, alleviation of poverty,
ensuring electronic media exposure, head to head communication program, institutional based sex
education and necessary information to learn about HIV/AIDS for the young, adult and adolescents
all over the country.