Indonesia to tag AIDS patients

The Indonesian State of Papua is passing a new law that will require some HIV/AIDS patients to be implanted with RFID chips, reports Inquisitir.

Under the proposal, patients who have shown “actively sexual behaviour” could be implanted with the RFID chip to monitor their activity.

Lawmaker John Manangsang explains a signal from the microchip will track the movements of the patients and this will be received by monitoring authorities. If a patient with HIV/AIDS was found to have infected a healthy person, there would be a penalty.

Lowry Computer Products has been selected as a vendor of passive RFID electronic product code hardware, software and services under a contract with a unit of the US Army, says WWJ Radio.

The deal with the army allows Lowry to provide the Defence Logistics Agency, US Army, and any other government agency within the US Department of Defence with the tools necessary to integrate RFID infrastructures.

Also covered in the deal are members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, members of US military coalitions and other approved foreign military sales.

Awarepoint, a company that provides sensor networks to track hospital assets through RFID, has pinpointed $13.3 million in a fourth round of funding meetings with its investors, states Red Herring.

The round was led by Cardinal Partners and included Venrock and prior investor Avalon Ventures.

The five-year-old company uses RFID tags and mesh networks to track hospital assets in real-time.