Community engagement to manage acute malnutrition: implementation research in Kupang district, Indonesia.

Objective: To improve the low coverage and performance of a programme on community-based management of acute malnutrition, implemented between October 2015 and April 2018 in Kupang district in rural Indonesia.

Methods: To investigate why the coverage and performance were low in the first year of the programme, we conducted a semiquantitative evaluation between August and September 2016. We used the results from the evaluation to inform programme improvement, by developing and modifying community mobilization strategies.

Sexually transmitted infections among female sex workers in Kupang, Indonesia: searching for a screening algorithm to detect cervical gonococcal and chlamydial infections.

Background And Goal: Notifications of HIV infection in Indonesia are increasing, but there are few data on other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), especially in the eastern islands of Indonesia. We aimed to measure the prevalence of STIs among female sex workers (FSWs) in Kupang, West Timor, and to develop screening algorithms to detect cervical infections with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and/or Chlamydia trachomatis (NG/CT).

Study Design: During 6 months in 1999, we recruited all the FSWs at Kupang's only brothel complex and a smaller number of independent FSWs.