Microchip plan reveals ignorance

The Jakarta Post by Sudirman Nasir | Aug. 1, 2007 (Opinion)

The effort of the Papua legislative council to draft an ordinance that would require microchips be implanted in people living with HIV/AIDS so the authorities could monitor their personal activities is hard proof of the common ignorance among Indonesia politicians of the HIV epidemic.

A recent HIV-risk behavioral surveillance survey in Papua found HIV is potentially spreading in the province at a rate 15 times above the national average and ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dale Penn - Jul 31, 2007 - 11:55 AM PDT
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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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Dale Penn
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 by Dale Penn - Oct. 1, 2008

Opinion piece sheds a bit more light on the report earlier this week coming from the International AIDS Conference about Papau New Guinea's draft ordinance requiring microchips for people living with HIV/AIDS.

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Linda Raiteri
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 by Linda Raiteri - Oct. 1, 2008

makes clear the ways HIV/AIDS is transmitted and the societal repercussions of a lack of this knowledge. using the terms "ignorance" (even though correct description of the situation) and 'fascism" tend to be inflammatory rather than instructive.

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