IMPACT (Integrated Management for Prevention And Control & Treatment) is a European Commission (EC) -funded and CORDAID (The Netherlands) contracted project.

• IMPACT is a university collaboration: 3 European universities: Radboud University Nijmegen and Maastricht University both from The Netherlands and Antwerp University, from Belgium, and Padjadjaran University in partnership with Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java Indonesia. The project officially started in December 2006.

• IMPACT aims to improve prevention, control, care and treatment of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Bandung, West Java, by targeting the main risk group, intravenous drug users (IDUs).

• IMPACT plans a comprehensive approach combines the following main activities: 

1. Health promotion; including, Information, Education and Communication (IEC) about HIV-related risk behavior in adolescents.
2. Scaling-up Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT).
3. Improving VCT accessibility to IDUs in the community, prison and hospital; harm-reduction strategies, including methadone maintenance.
4. Scaling up care for HIV/AIDS, including antiretroviral treatment.
5. Building health care workers capacity and transfer of knowledge about IDU and HIV/AIDS.

These activities – locally embedded and in line with accepted policy – are the most effective way to create an environment to scale up nationally and sustain evidence-based prevention and care of HIV/AIDS in Indonesia.

• More information: www.impactbandung.org

• Contact The Netherlands:

Dr. Reinout van Crevel

Drs. Mieke Daalderop

UMC St Radboud

tel. nr. 00-31-24-3616980 (secr)

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