Murdoch joins AIDS fight

BUSINESSMAN and media heir Lachlan Murdoch has made a flying visit to Papua New Guinea to promote business involvement in the fight against HIV-AIDS. The son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch arrived in the PNG capital Port Moresby today to attend a fundraising dinner tonight hosted by the PNG Business Coalition Against HIV-AIDS, part of a global coalition. Murdoch told reporters it was important to get businesses to think about how they could apply their existing resources in the fight against HIV/AIDS. This was particularly important in PNG where the disease posed such a threat, he said. That threat was being taken seriously by the government with the significant help of AusAID but businesses had their part to play too, Murdoch said. He gave the example of PNG's giant OK Tedi mine which ran a clinic employing four doctors and educated its workforce on how to protect themselves against HIV/AIDS.

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