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AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG (AFP)

by (author unknown), Yahoo! News: AIDS/HIV on Aug 27, 2007

A patient lies in the decrepid AIDS ward of Port Moresby General Hospital, 12 August. Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Some AIDS victims are being buried alive in Papua New Guinea by relatives who cannot look after them and fear becoming infected themselves, a health worker said Monday.



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