Abstract
Background In Indonesia issues of late deliveries and expiry of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines are significant. Indonesia with 7 main islands and 14.000 islands has a number of distribution difficulties. In addition there is a lack of appropriately qualified personnel handling ARV logistics. Seeing this situation the Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC) sought to initiate ARV monitoring through social media (Facebook) in 2011. Within the Indonesian there are 75 million internet users and 62 million who use Facebook. The Facebook community used to oversee the availability of ARV is called “Monitoring ARV” with 384 members including: people living with HIV in the community, doctors, professionals, activists and non-government organisations working in AIDS response.
Highlights
In Indonesia issues of late deliveries and expiry of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines are significant
In addition there is a lack of appropriately qualified personnel handling ARV logistics. Seeing this situation the Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC) sought to initiate ARV monitoring through social media (Facebook) in 2011
The Facebook community used to oversee the availability of ARV is called “Monitoring ARV” with 384 members including: people living with HIV in the community, doctors, professionals, activists and non-government organisations working in AIDS response
Summary
In Indonesia issues of late deliveries and expiry of antiretroviral (ARV) medicines are significant. Indonesia with 7 main islands and 14.000 islands has a number of distribution difficulties. In addition there is a lack of appropriately qualified personnel handling ARV logistics. Seeing this situation the Indonesia AIDS Coalition (IAC) sought to initiate ARV monitoring through social media (Facebook) in 2011. Within the Indonesian there are 75 million internet users and 62 million who use Facebook. The Facebook community used to oversee the availability of ARV is called “Monitoring ARV” with 384 members including: people living with HIV in the community, doctors, professionals, activists and non-government organisations working in AIDS response
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