A woman at Mt Hagen Hospital is told by a nurse (left) in 2004 that she has HIV. A few years ago, PNG was lauded for its efforts to contain the virus, but infection rates are now rising. Photo: AFP
Businesses for Health, or B4H, wants Papua New Guinea to realise the country is experiencing an alarming rise in new HIV infections.
An NGO that works as a health promoter, B4H involves itself with businesses, helping them to care for their workers facing major health concerns.
PNG has had a major problem combatting HIV in the past, and the prevailing view was, that despite once runaway figures, had been brought under control.
Now the B4H executive director Ann Clarke tells RNZ Pacific's Don Wiseman that the Covid pandemic, among other factors, has led to record high numbers of new HIV cases.
