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TABRIE-BRIGHT: Empowering people living with hiv through digital assistance and telehealth in a high-stigma region of Ondonesia

This project develops a digital assistance and telehealth platform to support people living with HIV in Aceh, Indonesia, a region marked by high stigma that discourages testing, treatment and retention in care. Led by teams at the University of Michigan and Universitas Syiah Kuala, with Narra Sains Indonesia as a partner, the project builds a telehealth dashboard for real-time monitoring and treatment adherence support and pairs it with strategies to improve HIV case-finding, testing uptake and linkage to care. The collaboration combines Michigan expertise in health policy analytics, epidemiology, nursing and digital health with local clinical and community knowledge to ensure the tools are technically robust and ethically implemented. The aim is to reduce barriers created by stigma and strengthen the full continuum of HIV care in the region.

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Start Date

May 1, 2026

End Date

May 31, 2028

Location

Indonesia

Project Investigators

Rahul Ladhania, PhD

Assistant Professor

School of Public Health
Health Management and Policy
Abram Wagner, PhD, MPH

Assistant Professor

School of Public Health
Epidemiology
Akshay Sharma, MBBS, MPH, PhD

Associate Professor

School of Nursing
Health Behavior and Clinical Sciences
Geoffrey Siwo, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

Medical School
Internal Medicine
Gastroenterology
Harapan Harapan, MD, PhD, M.Infect.Dis.

Assistant Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Universitas Syiah Kuala

Ichsan Ichsan (non-member)

Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Rifki Wijaya (non-member)

Lecturer

Collaborating Organizations

Universitas Syiah Kuala
Indonesia
Narra Sains
Indonesia

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