POSITIVE LIVING BASED ON FAMILY

This advice is made available to all churches and care groups involved in helping people with HIV/AIDS. Now that most of the Australian advisors have moved out of the country, the task of promoting AIDS awareness passes to the PNG people.

They should no longer be afraid of punishment from AusAID or the United Nations for rejection of the gay and lesbian agenda. If there are hostile acts from UNAIDS, UNDP or UN Women, please advise.

Their time has now passed. These expatriate people have to understand that they are servants not the masters of the national HIV/AIDS response.

We still hear of AusAID laying down the law to churches and threatening to block funding. Mr Bob Carr Foreign Minister of Australia should be aware of this.

From this time on, let us focus on Positive Living based on family. The family has always been at the epicenter of the national HIV/AIDS response. Many of us have been afraid to say so.

People have been afraid to talk of Positive Living. The closest they get is to refer to healthy living or living positively.

But Positive Living is the world term as reflected in the agenda of the international HIV/AIDS conference in Chiang Mai Thailand in 2001. The related papers started AIDS Holistics on the road to Positive Living awareness.

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The Positive Living strategy requires us to promote the rights, responsibilities and obligations of family members, roles of family members and the role models for us all, healthy living and the effects of HIV/AIDS on the body.

We all need to appreciate the overwhelming importance of the Personal Development program that runs through primary schools and high schools in Papua New Guinea.

This program reaches thousands of students in the country with focus on the same basic areas of healthy, loving family living. The grades 9 and 10 text books were printed in 2010.

Perhaps our Positive Living program helped the author. The only problem with these books is that there is focus only on healthy family life.The message is a little too bland.

There is no focus on the negative aspects of domestic violence, problems of young people, marriage, sexual abuse, Lukautim Pikinini Act, CEDAW. stranger danger, attack of HIV/AIDS, ARV drugs for raped women, Mother to Child transmission of AIDS, circumcision and the onset of dementia.

The students in grades 9 and 10 are 16-18 years old. They are young adults who need not be patronized with a watered down baby message.