AIDS Victims Buried Alive in Papua New Guinea

I was shocked by this news item today. HIV/AIDS education has clearly failed in PNG if families feel like they need to bury their family members to NOT become infected with HIV.

"I said, 'Why are they doing that?' And they said, 'If we let them live, stay in the same house, eat together and use or share utensils, we will contract the disease and we too might die.'"

Clearly the citizens of PNG don't understand the basics of HIV infection and transmission, and they have been holding witch hunts - killing women who they believe are witches and caused the deaths of young people that PNG people.

You begin to wonder how the island is going to hold itself together when HIV infection rises at 30% ever year....

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