YAKEBA (Yayasan Kesehatan Bali/Bali Health Foundation) has worked in the field of HIV/AIDS since its inception in 1999. In early 2001 YAKEBA opened an office in Denpasar where it established an HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse Information, Referral, Education and Rehab Center.

ALF/YKIP has funded one of YAKEBA's most innovative programs from 2004 – 2011: the Narcotics and HIV/AIDS Awareness in Bali's high schools. This project aims to increase the awareness of the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse as well as HIV/AIDS awareness among high school students in Bali. The program involves education, provision of referral options and counseling support for young Balinese. It is targeted at high school students living in high-risk areas, particularly those students in areas where alcohol and drug-abuse are common among young people. However, drug use is now spreading to rural areas as well and YAKEBA is now going into schools outside the urban areas as well as meeting with youth and adult groups in the villages.  Under this program, a doctor and former addicts go into high schools and the villages and  give presentations on and relate stories of the dangers of using drugs and how one can contract HIV/AIDS. The YAKEBA program reaches thousands of students every year.

ALF also funded a small rehab center from 2010 – 2011 one of only 2 such centers in Bali.

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Yakeba Drug/HIV Awareness & Rehab