PNG-Indonesia to combat AIDS in border areas
Juanita Sol Goma; 28/3/08
The Papua provincial AIDS commission (PPAC) of Indonesia has sought an understanding with the Papua New Guinea National AIDS Council (PNGNAC) to work together to combat the spread of the disease along the common borders. A team of officers has arrived in Port Moresby to hold talks with PNGNAC and share experiences and ideas in the campaign against HIV\AIDS. Chairman for PPAC Pangeran Silvanus Ukung said HIV\AIDS is now a bigger problem along the border areas and need Indonesia and PNG to cooporate. He said their way of dealing with the disease was different from us, in the sense that their country treated HIV\AIDS as a health problem, while we in PNG see it as a development problem that is affecting the country as a whole.