Anoek Photojournalist

JOURNEYS: Papua New Guinea

PNG still has limited primary health care. Infectious diseases are claiming many lives, and there are serious public health risks from endemic diseases such as malaria, and an emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic. An estimated 2% of people in PNG carry the virus. A unclaimed dead body is wrapped in a rag in a refrigerated shipping container outside Port Moresby at the morgue of the General Hospital on August 16, 2007. If health officials don't complete the paperwork on time, the unclaimed bodies will be placed in individual coffins and buried in a mass grave
PNG still has limited primary health care. Infectious diseases are claiming many lives, and there are serious public health risks from endemic diseases such as malaria, and an emerging HIV/AIDS epidemic. An estimated 2% of people in PNG carry the virus. A unclaimed dead body is wrapped in a rag in a refrigerated shipping container outside Port Moresby at the morgue of the General Hospital on August 16, 2007. If health officials don't complete the paperwork on time, the unclaimed bodies will be placed in individual coffins and buried in a mass grave