Indonesia’s vast Papua in the grip of Asia’s worst AIDS crisis

Posted on December 1, 2008 



Papua, a vast territory of tropical jungles and jagged mountain peaks on the western edge of New Guinea island, has seen an explosion in HIV/AIDS cases among a population that is the poorest in Indonesia.

Its infection rate, estimated at 2.4 out of every 100 people, is one of the highest outside Africa. And it is set to rise.


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