Improving access to treatment for PWID living with HIV in Indonesia

Practice Centre on PWID and HCV hosted by International HIV/AIDS Alliance in Ukraine together with Rumah Cemara and Yakeba organized training on access to care for people who inject drugs through the Community Initiated Treatment Intervention (CITI). The training facilitated by Olga Denisiuk and Erijadi Sulaeman took place on 11-13 March, 2015 in Bali, Indonesia.

The main goal of this training was to ensure the full understanding of step-by-step algorithm in organizing access to anti-retroviral therapy (ART) for clients of the Balinese NGO Yakeba, to break existing stereotypes about limitations for outreach workers of harm reduction programme in their involvement into ‘care and treatment field’.

As a result of the 3 days’ work and interactive discussions of the algorithms and approaches to effective linking of PWID to treatment, outreach workers developed their strategy using potential of their outreach model.

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