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Article: PAPUA NEW GUINEA: GOVERNMENT RATCHETS UP FIGHT AGAINST AIDS.
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- Interpress Service
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- December 5, 2007
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By Kevin Pamba
MADANG, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 5, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Experts have been warning Papua New Guinea for a decade that the country is at risk of an AIDS epidemic as serious as the epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa, but the government did not begin heeding these warning until just recently.
The new government of Papua New Guinea set up a separate ministry in August devoted to containing HIV and AIDS on this Pacific island of 6 million people.
The government also increased funding for the fight against HIV and AIDS Nov. 20 in its 2008 national budget: It raised the funding amount from 12 million Kina ($3.7 million) in 2007 to 15 million ...