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<text id=91TT2143>
<title>
Sep. 30, 1991: World Notes:Malaysia
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<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
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<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>
</body></article>
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