Reform and change is never over: a personal goodbye from outgoing NASFUND Joint CEO Rod Mitchel

 Dear NASFUND Members,

Outgoing NASFUND Joint CEO Rod Mitchell

 

As you are aware, I will be leaving NASFUND at year end after serving for nearly 13 years.

It has been a most rewarding time and a privilege to serve the private sector membership of Papua New Guinea. I look back to that time in early 1999 when we began the enormous clean up of the old National Provident Fund, a Fund that was mired in debt of K154 million from the shackles of corruption; an organisation with no policies, procedures, registers, bank reconciliations, with two years of annual reports uncompleted and of course facing imminent bankruptcy.

We took immediate remedial measures, made some very unpopular decisions about member Fund balance write downs and pushed for a Commission of Inquiry to not only reveal the facts about the state of the fund, but also lay the very ground work for reform. 

That reform of course came through former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta who in a heady two year period transformed the financial sector of which the Superannuation Act 2000 was a key piece of the reformist agenda.

Since privatisation in 2001, your Fund has not looked back.

From a net asset balance of K125 million, your Fund is now worth in excess of K2.3 billion – an annualized growth rate of 27.5% - no small feat especially in a decade characterised by  international economic turmoil. We have seen the Fund membership and employer base triple over that same period since the creation of NASFUND, we have led the field in terms of not only returns to members, but also in the range of services and service standards.

The last five years in terms of return and crediting rates have been outstanding with an average return of 17% over five years. 

A far cry from the dismal performance of international superannuation funds in the same period. 

Similarly the Fund has k100 million in reserves – over 4% of the Fund assets.

A deliberate strategic buffer against what we saw as the reemergence of global instability in 2011.

 Similarly in terms of cost we have seen the Management Expense Ratio fall from over 5% to 1.1% over the period, making us the most efficient provider of service in the industry.

I can also look back with some pride that without NASFUND assistance with the early loan capital support, the BSP/PNGBC merger would not have taken place. 

We acted as the “last resort” glue to ensure that Bank South Pacific could emerge as the strongest Bank in the Pacific.

And today we sit with pride with our 10.85% holding, making NASFUND the second largest shareholder in the Bank - and of course with the deeper meaning that private sector workers of PNG through their superannuation have ownership in Papua New Guinea's largest bank.

Moving over the years we have seen an enormous growth in our assets.

From only one major empty building, Deloitte Tower in 1999, to now the most prestigious commercial and residential property portfolio ownership in the country with our Harbour City developments as the jewels in the crown and all 100% occupied.

We also aggressively took control of the Burns Philp site and now we begin the transformation of that area of town, just as we have done with Harbour City and Konedobu. Agents of change always have their detractors but the evidence is overwhelming in that we as an organisation have been key in revitalizing Port Moresby. 

We were also key in developing the new frontier suburbs of 8 & 9 mile for PNG’s burdening population growth.

Over the last decade NASFUND has built nine new high quality either commercial or residential apartment buildings. 

A further three are under construction which will complete before 31 December 2012. It has been a very busy twelve years.

We have also seen strong growth in our equity portfolio over this period.

We were the key investor in allowing City Pharmacy to purchase the Stop ’N’ Shop chain of supermarkets. We took advantage of the ISP revolution by our strategic purchase of Data Nets and when Mainland Holdings had its back against the wall, mired in debt, we became the largest shareholder to which we have now stabilised the company and are returning it to financial health.

When Ramu Sugar Limited began fraying under large debt we also took the initiative to support New Britain Palm Oil (NBPO) effect a take over that ensured that Ramu Sugar maintained a strong balance sheet and we took benefit from this take over through our strategic holding in both NBPO and Ramu Sugar.

 We also took on the tough challenge of liberating the Pacific Balanced Fund from incompetent management by taking a large stake in the units of the company.

Soon we will see the fruits of that intervention when the accounts are finalised and a new unit price is struck. Hopefully our endeavours there will not only help our membership but also some 35,000 “mum and dad” members of the Pacific Balanced Fund that have been treated poorly for far too long.

 Internationally we have also proudly flown the PNG flag, with our majority ownership in the recently constructed Heritage Park Hotel and commercial annex in the Solomon Islands.

Heritage Park in a very short time has become the number one hotel destination in Honiara with strong high 70’s occupancy rates. 

We have now commenced with our joint venture partners the redevelopment of the Grand Pacific Hotel site in Suva Fiji, which also promises to be the leading commercial hotel in that city as well.

 Over the decade we witnessed at NASFUND a determined value system of action and results of which I term NASFUND exceptionalism. 

This is a culture based at its primacy on service delivery, product differentiation and above all actions over “talk talk”. 

We led the way in Branch rollouts going from 4 to 14 nationwide. 

We introduced Text Bal using both push and pull technologies – a first for superannuation world wide. Today some 70,000 members per month use their mobile phones to access their superannuation balances – finger tip client service!

We transformed the governance aspects relating to superannuation with a web based disclosure regime unparalleled in PNG and in most companies internationally.

We also introduced new products like Eda Supa, - a savings vehicle for those outside of superannuation that now covers a large number of self employed and informal sector workers.

We introduced the first ever online will kit, the first monthly electronically delivered newsletter to some 25,000 people per month. 

And of course we built from a small humble education savings of some of our members to a K80 million savings and loans vehicle called NCSL- the fastest growing savings and loans vehicle in the country today.

And to the membership, for the last ten years, the annual report and crediting of interest to member accounts has happened within seven to eight weeks of end of year balance.

No other institution has bettered that efficiency and commitment to its stakeholders.

On the NASFUND staff culture internally, we from day one set out on a programme of equality, pulling down old value structures, replacing them with equal opportunity, better support services, non discrimination on the base of sexuality and more recently a maternity scheme that is probably the best in the private sector today.

We said that staff matter, we showed them that they do matter and they have shown through empowerment the extradordinary capabilities that can be unleashed when management and staff are one.

But I have said continually over the last decade that an organisation that does not talk about the wider societal issues or as we coin it “social responsibility” can never be a leading company.

To be successful in business you must have empathy and context to the community that you operate within. Of all the things we at NASFUND can be pleased about is the role we have played in HIV & AIDS and our direct involvement in the Business Coalition against HIV & AIDS or BAHA. As we approach World AIDS day, how pleasing is the BAHA led wear red campaigns and hang red ribbons from buildings now being seen everywhere.

This is but testimony to the rapid change in thinking by corporates and the general public to this very serious health and development issue.

Similarly the recent setting up of the Serendipity Fund for children under BAHA whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDS is but the next phase in support for those whose lives have been irreparably been changed by this disease. 

Currently over 100 children are direct beneficiaries of that programme.

 Proudly too has been the introduction of the NASFUND Trainee Directors Programme,- giving young aspiring Directors the opportunity to work and learn by being on a Board in real time.

Hopefully, overtime we will see the fruits of this programme as more and more educated young Papua New Guineans take the directorship mantel going forward.

I am pleased that NASFUND also rescued the Institute of Directors when it collapsed from financial scandal years back and that too is now housed under the NASFUND roof along with two other wonderful organisations – the Coalition for Change – combating family violence and of course the Buk Bilong Pikini organisation under the control of the former Australian High Commissioner of Australia’s wife, Anne-Sophie who has been an extradordinary agent for change in the important process of getting books into children’s hands.

 The other area that has been of immeasurable success is NASFUND’s push into the Arts. 

For 12 years we have promoted Papua New Guinean artists in our annual reports and website.

Recently will commenced the K5,000 annual arts prize at the Luk Save Arts show. 

As much as we can directly promote protection of the family whether it be through reducing domestic violence or HIV awareness, the Arts has always been a marvelous glue that transcends all layers of society  and softens what is an often harsh social environment that we face in the country.

Finally as we look forward, the elevation of Ian Tarutia from joint CEO to sole Chief Executive Officer is to me personally important. 

He along with me has been the main driver of where we are today, and for my brother to take the reigns as sole CEO is but a very proud moment for me too.

I know that as I now leave the organisation, it remains in solid hands tested by a very tiring decade as we built not only the NASFUND foundations, but the foundations for the industry - and at times against some very large opposing forces.

And when I talk about the foundations, I talk about the comprehensive submissions to taskforces, the comprehensive dialogue within the private sector, the NASFUND created Association of Superannuation Funds of PNG and the absorption of small often corrupted or poorly administered Funds into the NASFUND family, which in turn strengthened the Industry and built the necessary confidence for it to flourish.

 To the staff, I say thank you for coming on the journey.

It has been a privilege to work with you and watch us grow as a family together.

And what a weird, often wild and wonderful family we are!

How many times on a Friday night in the staff car park have we had a few drinks and cried with laughter into the midnight hours. 

Of everything that has been achieved, it has been the incredible change I have seen in all of us as we kept striving for the best.  

It fills me with the utmost pride. Thank you for being my family abroad.

 To the men and women of the NASFUND reform era, I personally thank you for your strong support and for being part of the “pedal to the floor revolution” in developing a safety net and retirement savings regime in Papua New Guinea. 

And from what we have achieved, I can look back and say, not bad at all.

And I am sure NASFUND will in the future as has been over this tumultuous decade; continue to be the burning lamp which provides the light for others to follow.

I look forward to what will be an action charged “Tarutia decade” and I know he will not disappoint. 

  To former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta who took the bold decision to reform Superannuation through the Superannuation 2000 Act – I humbly state, Mission Accomplished!

Thank you

Rod Mitchell

Message from United National Secretary General on International Day of Persons With Disabilities

“Together for a better world for all  including persons with disabilities in development”

It is 30 years since the United Nations first observed the International Year of Disabled Persons under the theme “Full Participation and Equality”.  

During that period, there has been significant progress in raising awareness about the rights of persons with disabilities and in strengthening the international normative framework to realise those rights – from the World Programme of Action (1982) to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2006).

More and more countries are committing to protecting and promoting the rights of persons with disabilities.  

However, many challenges remain.

 Persons with disabilities experience higher rates of poverty and deprivation and are twice as likely to lack health care.

 Employment rates of persons with disabilities in some countries are as low as one-third of that of the overall population.

 In developing countries, the gap in primary school attendance rates between children with disabilities and others ranges from 10 per cent to 60 per cent.

This multi-dimensional exclusion represents a huge cost, not only to persons with disabilities but to society as a whole.  

This year’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities reminds us that development can only be sustainable when it is equitable, inclusive and accessible for all.

 Persons with disabilities need therefore to be included at all stages of development processes, from inception to monitoring and evaluation.

Addressing negative attitudes, the lack of services or ready access to them, and other harmful social, economic and cultural barriers will benefit all of society. 

On this International Day of Persons with Disabilities, I call on governments, civil society and the global community to work for and alongside persons with disabilities to achieve inclusive, sustainable and equitable development worldwide.

Sir Puka: What K5 million?

AGRICULTURE and Livestock Minister Sir Puka Temu has denied claims he is among senior ministers who received large payments of unbudgeted funds to pay for ministerial commitments and electoral projects, The National reports.
He said in a statement yesterday he was amazed by the opposition claim that senior government ministers “can just allocate themselves large amounts of money without going through the budget process”.
“I have been the deputy prime minister, a senior minister and department head and the only way I know public funds are secured to fund government commitment is through the budget,” he said.
“Everyone, including the opposition members, the media, public servants and the public should know that spending large sums of money outside of the budget is illegal.”
He said it was absurd for the opposition to make such a claim because there were credible, respectable and experienced people in government who knew the processes involved in approval and using public funds.
“They must think we know nothing about budgets and running governments and I think it makes them look stupid and silly.
“When they got the document, they should have questioned it and, as people with experience in government, they should have discarded it given the fact that spending money outside of the budget is illegal.”
Sir Puka said if the opposition claimed “that we received the payments”, then, they should say where the funds were parked.
“There are many things I could do with the K5 million in my Abau electorate or in my ministry,” Sir Puka said.
However, according to the project funding list in the report from Finance Department, Sir Puka got K5 million worth of projects in his electorate

Investigate ‘misuse’ of K500 million, says Tiensten

THE Task Force Sweep team should investigate the K500 million allegedly misused by the government, says
former national planning and monitoring minister Paul Tiensten, The National reports.
The Pomio MP also urged his successor Sam Basil and Treasury and Finance Minister Don Polye to table a report in parliament detailing how K1.9 billion of the development budget had been spent.
He said former planning secretary Joseph Lelang and his lawyers had accused the former government of front-loading and misusing the K1.9 million of development funds.
“I categorically deny that the K1.9 billion was misused by the former government,” Tiensten said.
“They have accused the former government of misusing the K1.9 billion when they have not even come out with a report on who are the beneficiaries are.”
He said the real story had now come out that the government which had preached about good governance and fighting corruption had spent K500 million outside of the budget.
“The truth will be unravelled that the K1.9 billion of development funds parked in trust accounts have been used to support political projects to keep MPs in government,” Tiensten said.
He challenged Polye and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill to tell the truth.
“They need to be accountable,” he said.
“I call on the Sweep investigation team to investigate this allegation to ascertain the facts. If the Sweep team is impartial and objective it should investigate the allegation and reveal the truth.”
Tiensten said the K500 million allegedly spent outside the budget “will create a huge hole in the budget”.
“It is a blow-out. It is over and above what is forecast. They will have to find money to fund the shortfall.”
He accused O’Neill and Polye of telling lies.
“They all should be investigated and arrested like some of us,” Tiensten said

Prime Minister: No apologies for K500m spent

By YEHIURA HRIEHWAZI

PRIME Minister Peter O’Neill said yesterday he will not apologise to anyone for the K500 million spending by his government in the last three months in office because it was budgeted for, The National reports.
Opposition spokesman and Madang regional MP Sir Arnold Amet had said at the weekend that K500 million had been misused and dished out to MPs and a law firm outside of budget appropriation and would result in a possible budget shortfall.
O’Neill said the money was spent on basic services and was never paid to individual MPs as alleged.
Also yesterday, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Sir Puka Temu denied receiving K5 million from the batch of K500 million.
Pomio MP Paul Tiensten called yesterday for an investigation into the allegations, claiming that here was a clear case for Operation Sweep to sink its teeth into. The Task Force Sweep had caused Tiensten to be arrested and charged twice.
The prime minister said such comments coming from a man of Sir Arnold’s standing were irresponsible and unbecoming of a former chief justice.
The funds were released for services such as health, schools and roads “and I will not apologise to anyone for spending money on services”, O’Neill said.
Referring to an K18 million payment to the Young and Williams law firm, he said the government had to pay its legal bills for services rendered.
With regards to the K14 million recorded against his name, O’Neill said the funding was for the Ialibu-Pangia road.
He said no money was paid to MPs in their names but it all went to the various districts in their electorates.
He urged Sir Arnold to take such evidence of “misuse of funds”, if any, to the appropriate authorities including the Task Force Sweep.
“No one is above the law, including the prime minister,” O’Neill said.
He said Sir Arnold was supposed to be a learned person with high standing and should refrain from making cheap political point-scoring statements.

World AIDS Day message from Michel Sidibé , Executive Director of UNAIDS, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations

Never before in the history of AIDS have we reached a moment where we are able to stand up and say with conviction the end of AIDS is in sight.
It has been a year of achievements, of collective action, of resilience and of courage. In spite of the economic downturn that has stretched the AIDS response to its limits, millions of lives have been saved, as HIV treatment and prevention efforts continue to show results.
World leaders have made new promises—bold, tangible and realistic.
These promises now must be delivered in every country, every community and to every person in need.
Fortunately, leaders are standing up to say that an AIDS-free generation is possible and that no child should be born with HIV and no mother should die of AIDS.
The gulf between treatment and prevention has ended. Treatment is prevention.
The divide between health and AIDS has narrowed, as AIDS comes out of isolation and into integrated and holistic health services.
The AIDS response has paved the path for a people-centred health delivery system, one that values and restores the respect and dignity of every individual.
The road before us is clear and we can accelerate ahead with smart investments, capitalising on scientific advancements and evidence and respecting human rights. It is why world leaders must fully fund the AIDS response.
The global investment target of US$ 22-24 billion is a shared responsibility—of all countries, donors and others.
Only together can we secure the future and provide greater and long-term dividends.
Today, on this World AIDS Day, I call upon leaders, communities, parents, people living with HIV and young people to look forward and work towards a world with Zero new HIV infections, Zero discrimination and Zero AIDS-related deaths.

50% of HIV/AIDS victims have access to lifesaving treatment

BERLIN / GENEVA, 21 November 2011 -   A new report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), released today shows that 2011 was a game changing year for the AIDS response with unprecedented progress in science, political leadership and results.   

The report also shows that new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths have fallen to the lowest levels since the peak of the epidemic. 

New HIV infections were reduced by 21% since 1997, and deaths from AIDS-related illnesses decreased by 21% since 2005.

“Even in a very difficult financial crisis, countries are delivering results in the AIDS response,” said Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS. 

“We have seen a massive scale up in access to HIV treatment which has head a dramatic effect on the lives of people everywhere.”

According to UNAIDS and WHO estimates, 47% (6.6 million) of the estimated 14.2 million people eligible for treatment in low and middle-income countries were accessing lifesaving antiretroviral therapy in 2010, an increase of 1.35 million since 2009. 

The 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report also highlights that there are early signs that HIV treatment is having a significant impact on reducing the number of new HIV infections.

Infection rates have dropped in most countries in the Asia Pacific region including PNG and increasing HIV prevention coverage is resulting in safer sexual behaviours. 

There are more people than ever before receiving treatment and this is significant because of the recent evidence that shows the powerful effect of HIV treatment on reducing transmission.

However, sixty percent of people eligible for antiretroviral treatment in the Asia Pacific region still do not receive it and Papua New Guinea continues to have frequent stock outs of crucial life-saving drugs reducing the impact that treatment could be having on the country’s epidemic. 

Globally around 2.5 million deaths are estimated to have been averted in low and middle income countries like PNG due to increased access to HIV treatment since 1995.

New HIV infections have been significantly reduced or have stabilized in most parts of the world, however, the number of new HIV infections continues to rise in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, the Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa.

Declines in new HIV infections are also being spurred by changes in sexual behavior, particularly in young people, as people reduce their numbers of sexual partners, increase condom use and are waiting longer before becoming sexually active. 

HIV prevalence declined among young people in at least 21 of 24 countries with national HIV prevalence of 1% or higher.

The Report highlights that an increase in uptake of male circumcision is also starting to contribute to declines in new HIV infections.  

 Studies show that 2000 new HIV infections were averted amongst men in Kenya’s Nyanza province after scale up of voluntary male circumcision in clinical conditions (rather than traditional circumcision). 

  Estimates in the report highlight that circumcising 20 million more men across Eastern and Southern Africa would avert around 3.4 million new HIV infections by 2015.

Around 400,000 new HIV infections in children were estimated to have been averted since 1995 due to increased access to effective antiretroviral regimens in low- and middle-income countries by 2010, almost half (48%) of all pregnant women living with HIV were able to access effective regiments to prevent their child from becoming infected with the virus.

UNAIDS has mapped a new framework for AIDS investments which are focused on high-impact, evidence-based, high-value strategies.

“The investment framework is community driven, not commodity driven.  It puts people at the centre of the approach, not the virus,” said Mr Sidibe.

This new strategic approach to investments would achieve extraordinary results; at least 12.2 million new HIV infections would be averted, including 1.9 million among children between 2011 and 2020; and 7.4 million AIDS-related deaths would be averted between 2011 and 2020.

The framework is based on six essential programme activities:  focused interventions for key populations at higher risk (particularly sex workers and their clients, and men who have sex with men); prevention of new HIV infections in children; behavior change programmes; condom promotion and distribution; treatment, care and support for people living with HIV; and voluntary medical male circumcision in countries with high HIV prevalence.

For the framework to be effective, programme activities must recognize critical enablers, such as reducing stigma, respect for human rights, creating a protective legal environment, and capacity building for community based organisations, which are curcial to overcoming the barriers to successful programme outcomes.

To rapidly reduce new HIV infections and to save lives, the 2011 UNAIDS World AIDS Day Report underscores that shared responsibility is needed.

World AIDS Day message from UNAIDS Papua New Guinea Representative Stuart Watson

 In June 2011, 192 Member States of the United Nations agreed to bold new targets and commitments that could make AIDS a thing of the past. 

They agreed amongst other things to work towards reducing sexual transmission of HIV by 50%; to eliminating new HIV infections amongst children; to increasing the number of people on life saving treatment to 15 million globally; and to increasing domestic funding for HIV responses.

The leaders of the world pledged to achieve these goals by 2015, which would move us closer towards the vision of a world with Zero new HIV infections, Zero AIDS-related discrimination, and Zero AIDS-related deaths.

But “Getting To Zero” in Papua New Guinea demands we have an evidence-based response that solidly focuses on and involves key populations most at risk, a response which is adequately resourced, and which is grounded in human rights. 

The countries which are acting on this knowledge – the knowledge of what works – are reaping the rewards.  Tremendous progress has already been made, proving that the epidemic can be reversed, and that HIV treatment and care can be brought to those who most need it. 

Infection rates have dropped in most countries in the Asia Pacific region including PNG and increasing HIV prevention coverage is resulting in safer sexual behaviours.   

There are more people than ever before receiving treatment and this is significant because of the recent evidence that shows the powerful effect of HIV treatment on reducing transmission.

These life-saving gains must be consolidated, expanded and sustained.  

 But critical challenges remain.

There are still insufficient and inadequate HIV programmes for key populations most at risk of HIV including men who have sex with men, people who buy and sell sex, transgendered individuals, young people at higher risk,  migrant workers, and people affected by natural and man-made emergencies.

Sixty percent of people eligible for antiretroviral treatment in the region still do not receive it and PNG continues to have frequent stock outs of crucial life-saving drugs because of poor management and systems which aren’t working. 

Coverage of services to prevent new infections amongst children have significantly improved in PNG, but still need to be expanded, supported and maintained.

Stigma and discrimination are widespread and present a forbidding barrier to many people receiving prevention related information and resources, care, treatment and support.   

We still have laws and policies on the books in PNG and in most countries in the region which hamper the AIDS response and compromise the human rights of key affected communities despite the lofty promises of PNG’s constitution.

And our leaders remain on the margins of the national response. 

  Papua New Guinea was one of the only countries in the Asia Pacific region which did not even send a delegation to the High Level Meeting on HIV at the United Nations General Assembly earlier this year.

And all of this is happening in the context of a global economic crisis where donor funding for AIDS is declining and national funding and commitment remains ambivalent.

As we commemorate World AIDS Day 2011 on December 1, we must recognise that we are at a crossroads in the national and global AIDS response. 

Success will require committed political leadership, strong national ownership, and partnerships that include people living with HIV and the other most affected populations. 

Success will require increased and sustained resources for HIV focused on the people and which reach the people most at risk including men who have sex with men, transgendered individuals, and people who buy and sell sex. 

And this can’t be done by hiding behind our idealised concepts of family, faith, community and morality – it can ONLY be done within the context of the reality of human behavior by taking the hard decisions to reform laws that impede the HIV response and which deny some individuals their right to access health services, treatment, and crucial prevention information and services.

Success means expanding access to affordable drugs, diagnostics, and prevention commodities such as male and female condoms because the many years of the global AIDS response have clearly shown that where these are emphasised in open, honest and dignified ways, the epidemic is slowed.

Success means making better links with and strengthening the rest of the health system to ensure drugs reach people, that treatment once begun is continued without interruption, and to be sure that we do a better job of linking TB and other components of the health system with the HIV response.

And most importantly, success means an end to the laws, policies and practices that fuel stigma and discrimination, violate rights, and hinder effective AIDS responses.

So if we are going to “Get to Zero”, we need renewed activism, we need more meaningful engagement with young people, we need new and more strategic partnerships beyond the traditional responders, we need to ensure respect of everyone’s rights through reform of the legal environment, and we need people from all walks of life to get engaged in the national response to HIV by educating themselves and those around them and learning their own HIV status so that those in need can access life saving treatment and care and reduce the possibility of transmitting the virus to others.

On World AIDS Day 2011, I call on everyone in PNG to courageously face up to the challenges presented by HIV and to embrace wholeheartedly the opportunities we all have to break the trajectory of the epidemic. 

  In pursuit of social justice and human dignity, let us unite our efforts, let us make the difficult decisions, and let us be guided by the evidence we have to ensure success in Getting to Zero new HIV infections, Zero HIV-related Discrimination, and Zero AIDS-related Deaths in PNG.

Additional information and World AIDS Day resources can be found at

www.unaids.org

www.worldaidscampaign.org

or by contacting

UNAIDS Papua New Guinea on 3217999