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