Papua and New Guinea medical journal
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To determine human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) prevalence in low- and high-risk populations in Papua New Guinea (PNG), anonymous unlinked serosurveillance was conducted in government-administered antenatal and sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics at six sites beginning in June 1989. Although 3 of 1233 samples were HIV positive in a pilot study, none of 7948 samples was HIV positive during the first full year of serosurveillance (June 1989--May 1990). HIV-infected people are also identified in PNG through clinical diagnostic testing. ⋯ Limited surveillance continued in PNG in 1991 and 1992. By June of 1992, 5 of an additional 6035 serosurveillance samples had tested positive. All 5 were among 2000 samples from a single site, the Port Moresby STD Clinic.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)