If the news on HIV/AIDS in PNG is good, then the sobering counterpoint is the rapid spread of tuberculosis. The official estimate is that the TB infection rate is 331 per 100,000 people, ...

Monday is World AIDS day and despite a HIV/AIDS epidemic in Papua New Guinea, the government has slashed its budget to combat the spread of the killer disease.

Already there are epidemic levels of HIV/AIDS in the PNG capital Port Moresby, among the poor and migrants in shanty areas. Over 85 percent of the capital is made up of squatter settlements.

Australia says HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea is now an epidemic, with 1 per cent of PNG's adults infected with the HIV virus.

PNG faces Aids epidemic. Up 125,000 people could die by 2020. By Phil Mercer In Sydney ... Aids-related diseases are the major cause of death at the general hospital in the capital Port Moresby and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Papua New Guinea faces the threat of an AIDS pandemic of Sub-Saharan Africa proportions unless enormous efforts are taken to stem ...