Strengthening capacity: facing up to HIV in Papua New Guinea

This edition focuses on responses to HIV in Papua New Guinea and Australia's involvement in those activities.

Also in this issue: the launch of the 6th National HIV Strategy.

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In this issue

News and commentary

Re-engaging the partnership: Launch of the 6th National HIV strategy PROFESSOR MICHAEL KIDD speaks at the launch of the new National HIV Strategy about the newly announced strategies to manage HIV and other BBVs in Australia

HIV and PNG

Assessing the risks: The first behavioural surveillance survey in PNG DR JOHN MILLAN outlines findings from PNG’s inaugural surveillance survey

Turning the Tide SALLY CAMERON provides a summary of key issues related to the HIV epidemic in PNG, as raised in the landmark Commission on AIDS in the Pacific report 'Turning the Tide: An OPEN Strategy for a response to AIDS in the Pacific'. This article only available online

Experiencing PNG’s HIV epidemic: A far north Queensland perspective DR DARREN RUSSELL and CARLA GORTON discuss how travel between Cairns and PNG has impacted new diagnosis figures in Cairns

The rise of positive champions in Papua New Guinea ROBERT BALDWIN profiles the development and audit process for innovative peer outreach programs developed by and for positive people in PNG

Hope through positive governance ANNIE MCPHERSON and JOHN RULE reflect on a partnership between an Australian and a PNG PLHIV organisation that facilitated important milestones in the PNG response to HIV

Moving towards sexual citizenship in the response to HIV KATHERINE LEPANI advocates for an approach to HIV prevention framed by an appreciation of cultural mores that inform sexuality and sexual practises

Developing good HIV practices in PNG: the Serendipity Educational Endowment Fund (SEEF) ELIZABETH REID shares some success stories

Making a difference: Australia’s support to the Papua New Guinea HIV response DONNA-JEAN NICHOLSON profiles Australia’s involvement in the programmatic response to HIV in PNG

Collaboration for Health in Papua New Guinea (CHPNG): ASHM’s Clinical mentoring program in PNG JACINTA ANKUS reports

On shifting sand? Building capacity in remote PNG ALY MURRAY and RUTH BEARPARK discuss their experiences of capacity building within remote communities

In good company: The PNG Business Coalition Against HIV and AIDS ROD MITCHELL provides information on the response of the private sector to HIV in PNG

Uptake of mobile/outreach and HIV counselling and testing in Morobe province DR ELSIE RYAN discusses successes and challenges of mobile/outreach HIV testing sites in a regional area

The tale of an activist CHRISTINE STEWART recounts one of Papua New Guinea’s ‘secret stories’

Anger Management: why I wrote Sin, Sex and Stigma: a Pacific response to HIV LAWRENCE J HAMMAR explains what drove him to write his latest book

Changing attitudes: The church-led response to HIV in PNG FRIEDA KANA gives an overview of PNG’s Church Partnership Programme

Regular features

Regional feature: West Papua

Web Watch: Evidence to Action: HIV and AIDS Data Hub for Asia-Pacific

Sin, Sex and Stigma: A Pacific Response to HIV and AIDS by Lawrence James Hammar. Reviewed by Abigail Groves