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...Manansang, who was born in Papua, estimates only one or two percent of 67,200 HIV/AIDS sufferers in Papua would qualify for the microchip. "The chip would send off a signal when infected blood comes into contact with non-infected blood so it would monitor the spread." Some 77% of those infected, according to 2006 government data, are indigenous Papuans, who make up about half of the province's population of 2.8 million people. "I am only trying to prevent the extinction of the Papuan people...
...governor's signature. (Indonesia's books are full of laws passed by local parliaments that local governments simply don't enforce.) "We have the power to make the laws and we need one to protect healthy people as much as we do the rights of those infected," says Manansang, who has only come across one case of "aggressive" behavior in HIV patients over the course of his 14 years working as a general practitioner at a hospital near Papua's capital. "When people find out they are infected they often get depressed but others undergo a severe change in behavior...
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