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- <text id=91TT2143>
- <title>
- Sep. 30, 1991: World Notes:Malaysia
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Sep. 30, 1991 Curing Infertility
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 45
- World Notes
- MALAYSIA
- Lock Up The Victims
- </hdr><body>
- <p> By global standards, Malaysia has not been greatly affected by
- the scourge of AIDS. Only 27 of its 18 million people have died
- of the disease since 1986, and fewer than 1,400 are known to be
- infected with the virus. But according to Health Minister Lee
- Kim Sai, the number of AIDS cases has more than doubled since
- last December and Kuala Lumpur is now weighing strong measures
- to block the further spread of the disease.
- </p>
- <p> Infected individuals, for instance, would be obliged to
- carry special identification cards. The press would be permitted
- to publish the names of patients. People convicted of bringing
- AIDS-afflicted prostitutes into the country would be given
- beatings and long prison terms. Harshest of all, the government
- proposes building a detention camp similar to a leper colony for
- those with AIDS. If that should happen, health officials
- believe, Malaysia would become one of the few nations in the
- world to try fighting the disease by detaining its victims.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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