HIV/AIDS

Proposed refugees' brothel concerns Manus PPC

Senior Inspector David Yapu said it will be illegal and also against Papua New Guinea’s Christian principles. The brothel will create more social problems and unwanted pregnancy, including the spread of HIV/AIDS, now prevalent on the Island.

“The brothel will become an issue affecting our traditional family morals and values with young girl and mothers servicing those asylum seekers for the sake of easy money,” says PPC Yapu.

Rural areas at risk of HIV spreading

This is one of the key findings in the 2015 Inquiry Report on the status of HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea.

It was revealed by West New Britain Governor and Chairman of the Special Parliamentary Committee on HIV/AIDS Advocacy, Sasindran Muthuvel, in Parliament yesterday.

“HIV/AIDS fury is far reaching and rampant in the remote rural communities while many people lack knowledge and risks of how HIV/AIDS is spreading and blamed AIDS related deaths to sorcery.

VCT centre concerned on spread of HIV/AIDS in Jiwaka Province

Apart from coordinating the TVET courses for women, the centre is an abode for people seeking guidance and also caters for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA).

In an exclusive interview with the coordinator of the VCT centre there, Sr Regina Wamp, many concerns were raised on the AIDS epidemic that should be brought to relevant authorities as a high priority.

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Women are missing from HIV drug trials

In an analysis spanning several decades that included work done as recently as 2012, researchers found that women typically comprised about 11 percent of participants in trials investigating cures for HIV. Similarly, drug studies were only about 19 percent female and just 38 percent of vaccine trial subjects were women.

HIV infections increase in Fiji

The report — titled How AIDS changed everything — released in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on the sidelines of the Third International Conference on Financing for Development last week, noted that the figure was small compared with the Asia-Pacific's total figure of 340,000 new infections recorded last year.

But according to UNAIDS Pacific country director Roberto Campos, these figures showed the need for increased education on HIV prevention that should be taken into account by policy-makers.

UN: Goals helped lift 1 billion people from extreme poverty

He further said it enabled more girls to go to school than ever before, and brought unprecedented results in fighting diseases such as HIV/AIDS.

In the final report on the Millennium Development Goals released Monday, the U.N. chief said the global mobilization to implement the goals has produced "the most successful anti-poverty movement in history."