Indonesia has one of the fastest growing, former or currently Injecting Drugs User (IDU)-driven, HIV epidemics in Asia. Coverage of needle syringe programs (NSP), opioid substitution therapy (OST) and anti-retroviral treatment (ART) is increasing, but still low, while professional training in addiction medicine is not yet established. Urgent development and scaling-up of professional capacity in comprehensive, evidence-based addiction medicine is needed. In this article the results of the first steps in the development of a national addiction medicine curriculum are presented: taking the an initiative to collaborate with the organizers of the Dutch Master course in Addiction Medicine, development of a training need assessment (TNA) and the first draft of training modules.
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