Health and HIV/AIDS During the Independence Period 1930-1961
with Dutch assistance the indigenous West Papuan people had
developed urban and a growing 4600 Papuans were employed in
education, administration, public health, police, fire brigade,
and hotel industry; 1600 in transport and communications; and
1200 in factories and workshops as well as 2300 employed in
commercial agriculture and rural industries. Although there were
only 194 indigenous health care professionals in 1961, in that
year alone there were another 417 being trained and 8 others at
the Port Moresby Medical School. The UN stop this education and
development of indigenous skills and social services, which was
replaced after 1962 by Indonesia's colonial administration as
"hundreds of Indonesians - teachers, scientists, doctors and
nurses and civilian administrators - joined in the effort of
UNTEA". Today the territory remains dependent on outside aid for
medical and educational professionals and materials. The
following AusAID and other repo