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Published online 3 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1274
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Indonesia to reject tagging of HIV carriers
A bill to track patients using implanted microchips is unlikely to pass.
A controversial proposal to tag "sexually aggressive" patients with HIV in Papua, Indonesia, with microchips looks likely to fail after being roundly condemned by AIDS activists and human-rights groups.
The proposal aims to address a spiralling HIV problem.
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