TABRIE-BRIGHT: Empowering People Living with HIV Through Digital Assistance and Telehealth in a High-Stigma Region of Indonesia

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.