HIV + People To Be Microchipped

International News, By icemoka, 26th November, 2008

Legislators of Papua, a small province in Indonesia have decided to support a controversial bill that would require all HIV positive individuals to have microchips implanted into part of their body with the intentions of monitoring the disease.

The plan was sharply criticised by health workers and rights activists on Monday.

However, legislator John Manangsang said by implanting small computer chips beneath the skin of “sexually aggressive” patients, authorities would be in a better position to identify, track and ultimately punish those who deliberately infect others with up to six months in jail or a $5,000 US fine.

In addition, Manangsang said while the bill’s technical and practical details need to be further reviewed, the proposed legislation will most likely pass next month as it has received full support from the provincial parliament.

As of right now, Indonesia’s population ranks fourth in the world and has one of Asia’s fastest growing HIV rates with 290,000 infections out of 235 million people. The causes of these infections are mostly traced back to intravenous drug users and prostitution.

Papua, one of Indonesia’s poorest provinces is facing one of the hugest HIV/AIDS problems today. Its case rate of almost 61 per 100,000 is 15 times the national average, according to internationally-funded research, which blames lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases.

“The health situation is extraordinary, so we have to take extraordinary action,” said another legislator, Weynand Watari, who envisions radio frequency identification tags like those used to track everything from cattle to luggage.

If passed, a committee would be created to decide who should be fitted with chips and how they would go about monitoring their behaviour.

Nevertheless it remains unclear who would be on it and how the provincial government would carry out their work, lawmakers said Monday.

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akkaz

said ages ago

I agree with Cameron M

dreadcircus

said ages ago

This is one of the vilest things ive read in ages.

hazyinseptember

said ages ago

???? crazy shit...

brodes13

said ages ago

I think its sad that it has come to this level. Is it because all other aveues have been exhausted? or whats the deal? But they do need to take some action tho! "Papua, one of Indonesia’s poorest provinces is facing one of the hugest HIV/AIDS problems today. Its case rate of almost 61 per 100,000 is 15 times the national average, according to internationally-funded research, which blames lack of knowledge about sexually transmitted diseases." That is a scary statistic!

chad_74

said ages ago

I cannot see a clear link between micro-chipping and HIV/aids infection. I mean is the microchip going to beep and set off an alarm before intercourse to remind you of safe sex? Once infection has taken place what good would the microchip have been?

datkindagal

said ages ago

fts BB tracking the HIV+, blinding human rights violation.

weathervain

said ages ago

I think disney is to blame http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxIa-643zI

MomijiTMO

said ages ago

It's Indo. Pretty much all of South East Asia is very primitive on homosexuality. Even the most western nations like Singapore have jail sentences for people who are caught in same sex relationships. Holy molly I love Australia. It's pretty weird going to these places knowing that if you went with your partner you would be royally forked.

rudeboy86

said ages ago

It is just fucked then again there were people in the US of A that were pretty much advocating for the Quarantine of people with HIV/AIDS...so maybe Asia is just generally 20-25 years behind the West in regards to human rights to a degree.

rudeboy86

said ages ago

We need to continue educating everybody on HIV/AIDS...you would have thought that the level of infections in Australia would have gone down since the mid 90s where there was still fear of possibly dying horribly as a result of an AZT overdose or just the body shutting down. The infection rate seems to be rising again...WHY?!? Are people that fucking stupid or could it correlate to the increase of "crystal meth" use as well...I'm sure we know that people are more likely to take risks when they are on harsh amphetamines. Most men I have met that have been recently diagnosed are/were meth users and were high at the time of exposure... It's not bloody hard to take care of yourself. Don't be fucking stupid...be fucking safe!

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