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    AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

    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.

    Margaret Marabe, who spent five months carrying out an AIDS awareness campaign in the remote Southern Highlands of the South Pacific nation, said she had seen five people buried while still breathing.

    One was calling out "Mama, Mama" as the soil was shoveled over his head, said Marabe, who works for a volunteer organisation called Igat Hope, Pidgin English for I've Got Hope.

    "One of them was my cousin, who was buried alive," she told reporters.

    "I said, 'Why are they doing that?' And they said, 'If we let them live, stay in the same house, eat together and use or share utensils, we will contract the disease and we too might die.'"

    Villagers had told her it was common for people to bury AIDS victims alive.

    Marabe appealed to the government and aid agencies to ensure the HIV/AIDS awareness programme carried out in cities and towns was extended to the rural areas, where ignorance about the disease is widespread.

    Women accused of being witches have been tortured and murdered by mobs holding them responsible for the apparently inexplicable deaths of young people stricken by the epidemic, officials and researchers say.

    A recent United Nations report said PNG was facing an AIDS catastrophe, accounting for 90 percent of HIV infections in the Oceania region.

    HIV diagnoses had risen by around 30 percent a year since 1997, leaving an estimated 60,000 people living with the disease in 2005.



    http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070827/wl_asia_afp/healthaidspng_070827121945

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    Re: AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

    obviously it's easier to bury someone alive then to teach them something about sexual health, right?  i think condoms are actually cheaper then shovels*, but i could be wrong i suppose... 

    *edited due to multitasking error.

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    Re: AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

    [quote author=emmieslost link=topic=9669.msg517217#msg517217 date=1188243613]
    obviously it's easier to bury someone alive then to teach them something about sexual health, right?  i think condoms are actually cheaper then condoms, but i could be wrong i suppose... 
    [/quote]

    I am trying to guess:

    cheaper than caskets?
    cheaper than shovels?
    cheaper than dirt?

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    Re: AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

    [quote author=MsSuzyQ link=topic=9669.msg517223#msg517223 date=1188243876]
    I am trying to guess:

    cheaper than caskets?
    cheaper than shovels?
    cheaper than dirt?

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    i doubt they used caskets....  :roll:

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    Re: AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

    [quote author=emmieslost link=topic=9669.msg517226#msg517226 date=1188243976]
    i doubt they used caskets....  :roll:
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    Re: AIDS victims 'buried alive' in PNG

    Ugh, how awful.

    I would hate to be buried alive. *shudder*

    I agree with you Emmie, I think all they need is some sex education etc.

    Anyone who says onions make you cry has clearly never been hit in the face with a turnip.

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