AIDS in Papua New Guinea
"Margaret Marabe, who works for a volunteer organisation called Igat Hope, Pidgin English for I've Got Hope, spent five months carrying out an AIDS awareness campaign in the remote Southern Highlands of the South Pacific nation.
She said she had seen five people buried alive. One was calling out 'Mama, Mama' as the soil was shovelled over his head, said Ms Marabe,'One of them was my cousin, who was buried alive,' she said. 'I said, 'Why are they doing that?' And they said, 'If we let them live, stay in the same house, eat together and use or share utensils, we will contract the disease and we too might die'.
' Villagers had told her it was common for people to bury AIDS victims alive."
source: Towleroad
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