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 since 2004: 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 villagesand  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.

Additionally ALF funds a small rehab center, one of only 2 such centers in Bali. The YAKEBA Blue Rose Rehab Centre in Denpasar has beds for eight male clientele.  This Rehab Centre provides vocational training for its clients and the ALF funds its operations and has purchased a computer, furniture and a digital camera.  Only those men who are completely clean are allowed to stay here (e.g. not using drugs or a substitute such as methadone).  This is a safe place for them to learn a skill and participate in group therapies.

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