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Papua New Guinea: AIDS patients buried alive.

Written byLova Rakotomalala

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Posted 27 August 2007 17:27 GMT

Caledosphere links to an article in which people living with AIDS in Papua New Guinea (New Caledonia's neighboring country) were buried alive by their relatives because they could not afford their treatments and were also afraid of being infected (Fr).

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