Indonesia
The Brown-Tufts Fogarty AIDS International Research and Training
Program (AIRTP) has mentored Indonesian investigators for more than
8 years. The In-country Director is Dr. Tonny Sadjimin, an internationally-reknowned
epidemiologist and head of the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Unit of Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Java. The AIRTP has
trained X (Bill: please check and let Vicki know) Indonesian investigators
from Jakarta, Central Java, and Bali. One Indonesian medical sociologist,
Dr. Sri Tyas, completed her doctoral work at Brown, studying the
behavior of commercial sex workers in Yogyakarta as part of the
Fogarty. Current Fogarty-funded activities in Indonesia include
a study of the use of medical incentives, like free STD and hepatitis
screening and treatment, as a way to increase the acceptance of
HIV testing among injection drug users in Denpasar, Bali, one of
the epicenters of the growing Indonesian AIDS epidemic.
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