The highly prized perfumed resin of West Papua's gaharu trees that has HIV infection shadowing its disciples will offer a further threat to a country barely responding now to the growing threat of HIV/AIDS ("The Money Trees", January 8).
Few dare think about how deeply HIV is embedded in West Papua and the time bomb that it is for PNG.
How I wish we had some money trees.. We are funding some wonderful people in Port Moresby to help feed patients in the General Hospital there, many with HIV.
The hospital doesn't have the money to feed them and neither do their relatives. Owners of money trees in Oz are invited to share some leaves with us.
Brian Haill,
President,
The Australian AIDS Fund Inc., Frankston, Victoria
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