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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Papua New Guinea: New Center Being Built for Those With HIV
January 13, 2004 A center for the education and support of people with HIV and their families should be finished in Port Moresby by the end of this month, said Project Manager John Keenan of C&M Engineers. The center will offer family planning, HIV counseling and testing, facilities for train-the-trainer and peer education, condom distribution, and a drop-in center with family support to those infected/affected by HIV. Anglicare StopAIDS PNG will run the center. C&M Engineers agreed to construct the user-friendly center at a lower-than-usual cost, about 1 million Kina (US$308,715).
Excerpted from:Back to other news for January 13, 2004 PNG Post-Courier 01.06.04 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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