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UPKM/CD Bethesda YAKKUM is a non-profit organization focused on community-based primary health services through a participatory approach and based on local potential, and collaborates with various parties in order to implement quality health services.


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June 6, 2024
HIV and AIDS Control on the Border of Indonesia and Timor Leste
The increase in the number of public health centres and hospitals that provide care, support, and medication services in the Belu Regency has facilitated access to health services for PLHIV. However, the challenge in realising quality care, support, and medication services in the border area of Indonesia with Timor Leste is [..]
June 5, 2024
Kebaya, Affirming Identity, Fluttering Our Existence
When we hear about the Kebaya Yogyakarta Foundation, the first thing that crosses in minds is an organisation that is related to fashion and identic with elegant, polite, and traditional women's clothes. The closest interpretation of the Kebaya Foundation is elegant and polite, which is what the activists and volunteers of the Kebaya Foundation are. At first, Kebaya Foundation was [...]
June 5, 2024
From LFU to We Love You: PLHIV Dream to be Accepted and Self-acceptance
Just like patients with infectious or non-contagious diseases who are medically required to take medication for some period, People Living with HIV (PLHIV) are also required to take ARVs every day. Taking ARVs (also known as status on ARV Treatment/ART) requires [...]
June 5, 2024
Reducing Stigma and Discrimination through Ecclesiastical Spirit
In 2019, the Asia Pacific region had 5.8 million people living with HIV (PLHIV) (UNAIDS Report, 2020). China, India, and Indonesia accounted for nearly three-quarters of the total PLHIV in the region. Three-quarters of these infections occur among key populations and their partners. Risky behaviors such as [...]