Indonesia's vast Papua in the grip of Asia's worst AIDS crisis

November 30, 2008

Gaunt and covered in sores, 20-year-old Christina Mabele is a rarity in the ballooning AIDS crisis that has hit the remote Papua region in eastern Indonesia: she knows why she is sick.

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• superhuman - Nov 30, 2008
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  many men go naked except for long, pointed gourds over their penises.

  
  
  Yes, this is certainly a very important aspect of this story, without it the reader would be unable to put things into perspective.
  
  

  What makes Papua's HIV/AIDS problem so bad, in short, is sex, according to health experts.

  
  
  Another brilliant statement.
  
  Sex is the same as everywhere else of course. What makes problem so bad is the lack of education, health infrastructure and preventive measures.
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