IDU, HIV/AIDS facts

IDU, HIV/AIDS facts

- 2002: Following the United Nations Special Session on HIV/AIDS
(UNGASS), the Ministry of Health and the World Health
Organization establish two small-scale methadone treatment
programs in Jakarta and Bali, and set up a needle exchange
program in Kampung Bali, Jakarta.

- A Joint United Nations Programme report on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)
shows HIV prevalence among IDUs in Indonesia had increased
threefold from 16 percent in 1999 to 48 percent in 2003.

- Dec. 8, 2003: The KPA signs a landmark memorandum of
understanding with the BNN establishing political and
institutional guidelines for a nationwide harm reduction program.

- 2004: The Ministry Justice and Human Rights issues a decree for
the establishment of an HIV/AIDS prevention program in the
country's correctional system, with a pilot project at the
Krobokan penitentiary in Bali. The KPA and BNN establishes two
official needle exchange programs in Jakarta and Bali.

- Current Ministry of Health data shows that of the estimated
124,000 to 196,000 IDUs nationwide, nearly half of them are HIV
positive.

- Jangkar reports that 80 percent of new HIV cases in 2004 were
IDUs. -- JP