Co-locating art and health: engaging civil society to create an enabling environment to respond to HIV in Indonesia
Jamee Newland
A D , Dwi Lestari B , Mashoeroel Noor Poedjanadi B and Angela Kelly-Hanku A C
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations
A Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, UNSW Sydney, Wallace Wurth Building, High Street, Kensington, NSW, Australia.
B Perkumpulan Keluarga Berencana Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
C Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit, Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, Goroka, Papua New Guinea.
D Corresponding author. Email: j.newland@unsw.edu.au
Sexual Health 18(1) 84-94 https://doi.org/10.1071/SH20125
Submitted: 20 July 2020 Accepted: 13 October 2020 Published: 22 February 2021
Journal Compilation © CSIRO 2021 Open Access CC BY-NC-ND
Abstract
Background: This paper will report on the successful co-location of a community-based arts and sexual health project that aimed to engage, educate and create testing, treatment and care pathways at a co-located mobile sexual health clinic and community-controlled art gallery in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Methods: Mixed methods were used to evaluate the project, including a visitor (n = 1181) and artist (n = 85) log book, a convenience audience survey (n = 231), and qualitative semi-structured interviews (n = 13) with artists and audience to explore the effect of arts-based activities on access to sexual health information and services, and stigma and discrimination. Results: In total, 85 artists curated five separate exhibitions that were attended by 1181 people, of which 62% were aged ≤24 years. Gallery attendance improved awareness and participatory and interactive engagement with sexual health information through a medium described as interesting, fun, cool, and unique. The co-located clinic facilitated informal pathways to sexual health services, including HIV/AIDS testing, treatment, and care. Importantly, the project created shared understandings and empathy that challenged stereotypes and myths, reducing stigmatising beliefs and practices. Conclusions: Arts-based programs are transformative and can be effectively implemented, replicated and scaled up in low-resource settings to create awareness and initiate for HIV prevention, testing, treatment, and care. Art-based health programs engages people in their communities, mobilises civil society, builds enabling environments to reduce stigma and discrimination and improves access to testing and prevention; essential features needed to end AIDS in Indonesia (and the Southeast Asia region) while improving the lives of those most vulnerable to infection.
Keywords: arts-based research, participation, communication, community interventions, health promotion, HIV/AIDS, stigma, Southeast Asia.
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