Papua province plans to implant microchips in AIDS patients
Now some HIV/AIDS patients will be implanted with microchips in a bid to prevent them infecting others, in Papua province of Indonesia.
Under the bylaw, if a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty.
The local parliament was expected to introduce the controversial legislation in Papua, which lies in Indonesia’s easternmost fringe, by end of this month, lawmaker John Manangsang said.
Health experts say the disease has been spreading rapidly from prostitutes to housewives in the past years.
The number of HIV/AIDS cases per 100,000 people in Papua is nearly 20 times the national average in Indonesia, according to a government study in 2007.