Programs

Peer Services

Rumah Cemara’s Peer Services Unit manages our three programmatic sub-Units, through which we pursue our vision of an Indonesia without discrimination towards people with HIV/AIDS and people who use drugs, and implement our mission of improving the quality of life for people who use drugs and people living with HIV/AIDS through peer interventions. Through all of these Peer Services, Rumah Cemara aims to counter the stigma and discrimination aimed at people using drugs and living with HIV, to prove that these people are in fact valuable members of society, and a meaningful, crucial part of the solution to overcoming issues of addiction and HIV/AIDS – as educators, healthcare workers, and community leaders.

If you or a loved one is in need of Rumah Cemara services, or is seeking information about treatment and care, please contact us (“Contact us”) immediately.

Drug Addiction Treatment Center

At the core of Rumah Cemara’s target population are people who use drugs. Our Treatment Center combines the Therapeutic Community and the Twelve Steps models with both a peer and professional approach. Residents undergo 6-9 months of treatment within both in-patient and out-patient periods. As of December 2009, 200 residents have graduated successfully through the Rumah Cemara program since 2003.

HIV/AIDS Peer Support: Bandung Plus Support

Bandung Plus Support began as a Peer Support Group based on the needs of its members, and then grew into an individual case management approach to HIV/AIDS, in which staff accompany clients to the hospital for testing and treatment and make home visits to offer support and information to the family of people with HIV/AIDS. Rumah Cemara now maintains a growing network of 61 peer support groups across West Java, and the total number of members as of December 2009 is 5,593 people living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Bandung Plus Support runs its Program in coordination with hospitals, the Ministries of Health and Social Welfare, Red Cross Indonesia, Prisons, and other NGOs.

Community Outreach

Rumah Cemara conducts intensive outreach with both populations at high risk of contracting HIV, and with the general public. We outreach primarily to communities of drug users, prisoners, and sex workers with a clean needle exchange program and free condom distribution program. Since starting in September 2004, we have expanded our services to the cities of Cianjur and Sukabumi, distributing over 35,558 clean needles and 38,375 condoms, and reaching approximately 2,240 injecting drug users, 3,256 prisoners, 214 female sex workers, and 959 clients of sex workers. We also work in cooperation with community health centers in order to provide harm reduction services.

In order to reach the general public, Rumah Cemara runs a mobile health clinic that has already provided basic healthcare services on 156 field visits to 7,039 people living in rural areas with no access to health care. Additionally, in 2010, Rumah Cemara started a community-based fundraising campaign called “For Life” to engage the general public as creators of concerts, football tournaments, and other creative events that bring education to the public about drug addiction and HIV/AIDS. Read more about our “For Life” Campaign to get involved! (“For Life” Campaign)