More than two years have passed since the Global Fund Round 8 (GF R8) was initiated in Indonesia. Yakeba is one of the Sub-Sub Recipients (SSR) of the GF grant (through PKBI) in the Province of Bali. Since then, Yakeba has been able to reach out to high risk populations for HIV as well as establish a peer-driven support network for people living with HIV and AIDS in the regency of Tabanan.
When reading about HIV and AIDS all too often we are confronted with statistics. We learn about the number of people newly infected, about prevalence rates within certain populations, regions or countries and how many people have died from AIDS. While such statistics are necessary, they tell us little about the realities behind these numbers. Thus the idea of “notes from the field” is to tell the stories of real people and give a human face and voice to the epidemic.