HIV in Micronesia

Hezel, Francis X. (2007-07-10). [www.micsem.org HIV in Micronesia]. Micronesian Counselor (Report). Kolonia, Pohnpei: Micronesian Seminar. pp. 1–10.

• Has attachment: File:SDT8V75N.pdf

Abstract: We can’t say we haven ’t been warned. For several years now posters have been screaming at people in the islands to beware of HIV/AIDS. Drawings of open graves and death skulls that paper the walls of our hospitals an d heath centers provide a chilling warning of the human toll that this epidemic will exact once it strikes te island s. Conferences on the dangers of HIV/AIDS have multiplied, local health teams have been formed to combat the danger, and health officials here and abroad have issued a red alert to the public...

T h e public seems to have regard ed HIV/AIDS as a distant threat, something along the lines of global warming and sea level rise, which will trouble us some day if we’re not careful. People have been slow to grasp the fact that H I V is already with us. The issue is no longer keeping the disease from gaining a foothold in the islands; in point of fact, the virus has been p resent for some 1 5 years already…

Extra details:

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001283
PMID: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18074009
MAG: 2012802518
OpenAlex: W2012802518
PMCID: 2100172
CorpusID: 18552721