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  • A member of YPKM, a local NGO, demonstrates the use of a condom during an HIV and STD awareness raising campaign at a local market. These kind of campaigns are still very rare.
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  • When senior high school students were asked about HIV/AIDS modes of transmission during one of the rare awareness-raising workshop by a local NGO, a majority of them stated that the virus was transmitted through mosquitoes and were not aware that no cure for the disease has yet been found. A worrying amount of youngsters also believed that the virus could be transmitted through kissing and shaking hands.
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  • Agustina*, 19, speaks in a hushed voice as her baby sleeps in a hanging cot. She tested positive over two years ago. She gave birth to her son 18 months ago. He is HIV positive. Lack of awareness about the disease means many infants are infected through childbirth or breastfeeding. Although she knew of her HIV positive condition, Agustina was unaware of the implications for her child's health.
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  • One of the rare shelters for people with HIV/AIDS. This particular shelter is run with the private money of three NGO workers.
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  • This 15 year old girl suffers from a rash all over her body since she started the ARV therapy
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  • A woman's disfigured hands tell a long history of loss. Traditionally Dani women amputate a finger every time a close member of the family passes away. Due to a lack of awareness, poor health services, stigma and misinformation, the number of undetected HIV cases is thought to be many times higher than the 2700 detected HIV cases in Wamena (Jan2013).<br />
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Due to a lack of awareness, poor health services, stigma and misinformation, the number of undetected HIV cases is thought to be many times that the 2700 detected HIV cases in Wamena (Jan2013).
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  • Magda* (15), winces with pain as she takes her first walk out of her hospital room in six weeks. Her mother sits by her bed every day dreading the day she will lose the last of her children to the virus. Magda's two sisters and younger brother have already died, and her mother and uncle are also HIV positive. She died one month after this picture was taken.
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  • Wamena cemetery<br />
Some priests claim during mass that AIDS is a punishment from God to those who have sinned. Churches are slow to tackle the problem, and it can still be a problem to find a priest to bury someone who has died of AIDS. A young NGO worker who studied theology tells us that he sometimes spends many days looking for priests to perform funerals for HIV patients, knocking on many closed doors and being turned back.
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  • Two nurses insert an intravenous drip into Yulianus'* (23) hand. Yulianus has been undergoing ARV therapy for the past two years, but often forgets when he feels well. Feeling weak, with no appetite and coughing blood a local NGO recommended he should go to hospital. He was diagnosed with TB. <br />
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Many Papuans are reluctant to go to hospital as most of the staff is non-Papuan leading to cultural and linguistic misunderstandings. The upheaval and the high costs incurred for the family to stay in town or to visit them is another deterrent.
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