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GREETINGS on this Monday morning and the very best for the week to come.
Some of our readers will be returning to tertiary and secondary studies
today; we hope that 2007 will grant you every success.
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ON the weekend, we noted a confrontation mirrored in the pages of a local
newspaper. One of the paper’s columnists correctly stated: “There is no
cure for HIV/AIDS.” That is the truth, and the accuracy of that blunt
statement needs to be recognised and absorbed by everybody.
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BUT on a following page, we stumbled across a statement headed “Public
Notice”. This proved to be a direct contradiction of the columnist’s
correct claims, and it dared to suggest “PNG has now got the cure”. This
lie was compounded by a sentence that read “more than 50% of the people
living with HIV/AIDS have (sic) been cured ...”
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IT is of course nonsense to suggest that more than half of the number of
Papua New Guineans living with HIV/AIDS has now been “cured”, no matter
what means have allegedly been used. Indeed, we believe it would be just
as false to claim that any human being has been cured of the killer
disease by any means at all.
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THE mysterious “cure” advertised in the newspaper gives a name and a
mobile number. It adds that the “location” where this false cure can be
obtained is none other than the PNG Defence Force’s supposedly
prestigious Murray Barracks HQ in the capital.
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WE challenge those manufacturing this product to provide a copy of an
authenticated scientific laboratory test that confirms the curative
claims made for this herbal cure. If such undeniable evidence is
forthcoming, then PNG’s future as an independent nation of
unimagined wealth is assured.
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BUT should such proof be impossible to obtain, then those behind this
product must withdraw it from the market, and make every effort to return
the money they have extorted from their sick and dying victims.
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PENDING either of those outcomes, all news
organisations should refrain from publishing such cruel and destructive
advertisements in their pages, or be prepared to face the possibility of
legal action from HIV/AIDS sufferers.
– Dee Nesenolis
 
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