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Potential economic impact of an HIV/AIDS epidemic in Papua New Guinea (pdf 390kb)

This study explores the potential economic impact of HIV/AIDS in PNG, including the macroeconomic and sectoral impacts if an epidemic should replicate the situation in sub-Saharan countries.

PNG is poised on the brink of a serious epidemic. Current estimates of prevalence are 0.6 per cent of the population, or around 14 000 people. At the end of 2000, a total of 3421 cases of HIV, including 1155 cases of AIDS and 237 AIDS deaths had been reported. The most recent surveillance update at June 2001 puts the cumulative number of HIV cases reported at 4075, with 464 cases reported in the six months to June, a 48 per cent increase over the same period in the previous year. Estimates of the number of people in PNG infected with HIV range from 5 500 to 22 000, with the National Consensus Workshop in 2000 estimating the likely range as 10 000 to 15 000.

 

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