While progress in medical technology has improved the prospect of HIV-positive people leading fulfilling lives, the challenge of expanding access to those treatments remains. The 25th International HIV/AIDS Conference last month in Munich, Germany, made clear that substantial progress has been made in terms of access to HIV treatment, despite COVID. But at the same time the gathering highlighted countries rarely mentioned in the headlines where the fight against HIV remains difficult. Papua New Guinea, located north of Australia in Oceania, is such a country. For Erasing 76 Crimes, Lesley Bola, head of Papua New Guinea’s local HIV prevention organization Key Population Advocacy Consortium-PNG, discusses hurdles and progress in the fight against HIV in Papua New Guinea. Bola was in Europe on the invitation of Global Black Gay Men Connect.