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The Malaysian divide in AIDS debate
Published:  Dec 23, 2008 11:40 AM
Updated: 7:51 AM

Proposals for compulsory screening and sex and marriage curbs for HIV sufferers have triggered an intense debate over how to handle a disease taking hold in mainly Muslim Malaysia.

The issue has revealed a sharp gulf in thinking in this multiracial nation of 27 million people, with AIDS activists critical of attitudes they say are stigmatising people with the deadly disease and its precursor HIV.

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