HIV Program
Promoting prevention, detection and treatment
HIV is very treatable but only if you know you have it.
Maluk Timor supports the Ministry of Health to run a high-quality, welcoming HIV care program from a dedicated HIV centre in Dili. Our aim is to reduce new HIV infections and maximise quality of life for people living with HIV.
People living with HIV in Timor-Leste commonly face stigma and discrimination, even in healthcare settings.
In our HIV program we always put stigma-free care as our top priority.
What are we doing?
The HIV Centre
Our HIV Centre is the main care provider for an estimated 15% of all people living with HIV.
The centre provides stigma free care, information and skilled counselling to help patients make good health choices. We also treat patients with an antiretroviral therapy.
Many of the patients we see are at a late stage due to stigma and low rates of testing. However, by providing skilled counselling we have supported 92% of our clients to become stable on anti-retroviral therapy.
We are currently:
Treating 276 people living with HIV
Training and supporting healthcare workers
Our HIV training program teaches community healthcare workers on how to better identify, treat and promote the prevention of HIV.
We do this through Friday HIV classes for community healthcare workers, on the job training in our HIV centre.
We also provide remote advice and support and the development of culturally sensitive clinical guidance materials.
In 2022:
Achieved a 94% patient satisfaction rate
Public engagement and HIV awareness
Stigma and discrimination is a widespread challenge for people living with HIV in Timor-Leste.
Through a mix of mass media campaigns, in-person outreach and social media presence, we aim to reduce new infections with education on prevention and screening.
We are also keen to help change community attitudes so that people living with HIV can be more accepted within the community
In 2022:
Our health promotion videos were broadcast on TV to combat stigma.
How your donation helps
A little goes a long way to improving health in Timor-Leste
Provide ongoing HIV treatment
$27 /m
For less than a dollar a day we can provide the doctors, nurses, and counsellors for a person living with HIV.
Employ a new HIV counsellor
$350/m
This covers the full employment costs for a new HIV counsellor
Employ an HIV nurse
$300 /m
This covers the full employment cost for an HIV specialist nurse.
Who we work with on this program?
Timor-Leste Ministry of Health
FUNDING PARTNER
Timor-Leste Ministry of social solidarity
Global Fund
The HIV team
Bonifácio da Silva de Jesus
HIV Doctor
Novirial (Ano) Pinto
HIV Counsellor
Karolina Surya Embun
HIV Program Manager
What's next?
Build a new HIV Care & Training centre
We have over 15 years of experience running a non-judgemental treatment HIV treatment program in Timor-Leste.
2 years ago we used that experience to build
We currently run the only HIV specific treatment centre in Timor-Leste.
How much?
$200,000
Purchase a vehicle
Our Family Medicine Training Program, is a recognised a Postgraduate Diploma in Family Medicine.
In collaboration with the RACS we trains doctors in community health care centres to become the “role model clinicians” of the future.
In this program we focus on improving skills in professionalism, technical knowledge, consultation, self-development, leadership and quality improvement.
How much?
$20,000
Social support for patients
Supporting nurses, doctors and other health care professionals by doing what? What are we training them in, I need more information. Need examples of what this might actually mean.