Darc Ragii

🔴 **HIV Awareness: PNG 🇵🇬**

HIV remains a serious public health challenge in PNG.
📊 Around **1% of adults (15–49)** are living with HIV.
📌 An estimated **120,000+ people** are currently living with HIV nationwide.
⏳ More than **10 new infections occur every day**.

These are not just numbers — they represent our families, our friends, our communities.

The reality is this: HIV is preventable, manageable, and treatable. With early testing and proper treatment, people living with HIV can live long, healthy lives. ❤️

# # # 🛡️ Prevention Starts With You:

✅ **Get tested regularly** – Know your status.
✅ **Use condoms consistently** – Protect yourself and your partner.
✅ **Access treatment early (ART)** – Treatment saves lives and reduces transmission.
✅ **End stigma and discrimination** – Support those living with HIV.

Silence increases risk. Awareness saves lives.
Let’s stand together, wear the red ribbon 🎗️, and protect the future of Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬.

💬 Share this message.
🧪 Encourage someone to get tested.
❤️ Be part of the solution.

**Together, we can reduce new infections and build a healthier PNG.**

They are sucking blood from stone
Wake up PNG 📢

⚠️PNG Youth: Your Future is at Risk. We Need to Talk About Our Disappearing Kina and Crippling Taxes.Wake up, PNG youth! This isn't just about old people complaining about car prices.

📢This is about your future. The economic disaster unfolding in front of us right now, driven by outrageous taxes and a collapsing currency, is a ticking time bomb for your lives, your opportunities, and the very foundation of this country you will inherit.

​You might think, "Who cares about importing a car? I just want a job." But the struggle to buy a vehicle is just the tip of a much larger, more terrifying iceberg.

​The Kina: Your Future is Being Stolen, Toea by Toea Imagine your parents spending K13,000 for something just a few years ago.

Today, that same item costs K17,000 because our Kina has been deliberately devalued. That isn't just an inconvenience; it's a direct attack on your future earning power.

​Essentials will become luxuries: If the Kina keeps falling, imported food, medicine, fuel – everything you rely on daily – will become so expensive that basic needs turn into unaffordable luxuries.

​Education and healthcare will suffer: When government revenue is mismanaged, and the economy is struggling, who pays the price? Our schools, our hospitals, and every critical public service are supposed to be building your future. They will decline even further.
​Jobs will be scarce: Businesses struggle when costs surge. Fewer businesses mean fewer jobs, fewer opportunities for you to build a career, start a family, or simply thrive in your own country.

⭕️​Taxes: A Burden Too Heavy for a Young Nation The outrageous import taxes we face – like the 60-110% duties on vehicles – aren't just about getting a car.

They are symptoms of a desperate government trying to squeeze blood from a stone. Instead of fostering a healthy, diverse economy, they are punishing citizens and strangling economic activity.

They are sinking this beautiful nation.

Wake up, PNG 📢✅️⏰️