Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Living with AIDS in Indonesia will not have a microchip

The authorities of the Indonesian province of Papua rejected the idea of forced implantation HIV electronic devices. Legislature Papua majority, voted for the removal of the item on the forced implantation of microchips local people, prone to risky sexual behavior, of the draft law on the development of the health care system.

Under the original version of the bill, subcutaneous microchips proposed mandatory to provide HIV carriers, engaged in sexual services, or the practice of polygamy, which is approved by the tradition of some local tribes. It was assumed that microchips will allow better control of movement and the possible connection of patients at risk.

Decision parliamentarians Papua abandon innovation was the result of criticism from the Indonesian and international human rights organizations. On the inadmissibility of such forms of control over the spread of HIV infection and said the Deputy Governor of Papua Hazegem Alex (Alex Hasegem).

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