Future of Papua at risk

Future of Papua at risk

JAYAPURA, Papua: Most of people in Papua living with HIV/AIDS
are between 5 years and 29 years of age, or in their productive
years, numbering 746 or 51 percent out of a total 1,454 people
with AIDS in the province, according to government data.

The group was followed by people between 30 to 39 years of
age, numbering 361 and people 40 to 49 years of age, or 109,
according to the data available at the Papua provincial health
office. The figure has raised concern about the future of the
province. Promiscuity was the main cause of the spread of
HIV/AIDS in Indonesia's westernmost province. -- JP