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Article: AIDS devastating Papua New Guinea (New Zealand).(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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Wellington--In the same week of February that Time magazine ran a cover story on AIDS in Africa, a priest was warning about a similar epidemic ravaging a country on the other side of the world.
Father Michael McCabe, director of the New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre, was conducting a seminar in the highlands of Papua New Guinea for 22 Catholic bishops from that country and the nearby Solomon Islands. He had been invited by their bishops' conference to address them on bioethical issues.
He warned the bishops that Papua New Guinea, a nation of 4.9 million people, was facing an epidemic similar to the one that was devastating subSaharan Africa, ...