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Papua New Guinea: Condoms to Be Distributed Free as Part of Pacific Nation's Campaign to Tackle HIV/AIDS
September 16, 2002 Papua New Guinea has launched its own brand of condoms and will hand them out free at health clinics in an attempt to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS across the impoverished Pacific nation. The nation's AIDS Council said Friday the new "Karamap" condoms would form part of a new awareness program about the disease. The brand name comes from pidgin, a Papua New Guinea dialect derived from English, where karamap is a word for cooked food that has been wrapped in leaves. AIDS Council Director Dr. Ninkama Moiya said there are plans to make 2.4 million condoms, which would be free in health centers and cost 12 cents for a pack of three elsewhere. Moiya said that although there are only 4,792 reported cases of HIV/AIDS in the country of 5.1 million, the disease is believed to be grossly underreported, particularly in remote areas of the country.
Excerpted from:Back to other CDC news for September 16, 2002 Associated Press 09.12.02 This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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