Objective: Fighting for the right of HIV prevention and against prejudice for people living with HIV/Aids and empowering the most vulnerable communities.

Target groups: Sexual workers, transgender, drug users and Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) in Malaysia

PT Foundation (PTF) does HIV prevention, care and support work in Malaysia, it has just celebrated its 21st anniversary. Their main target groups are those most exposed to risk of HIV infection: transgender, sex-workers, drug users and MSM. This is an Community based Organisation (CBO) which is confronted everyday with the contradiction of a typical south-east Asian conservative society with an additional dash of religious tradition. In Malaysia sexual issues are still very taboo, not to mention sex changes (a very different attitude than its neighbor, Thailand) and drug users. The penalty for drug trafficking is death.

The Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development support and finances PTF’s condom distribution programme, while the police continue to raid premises where they are distributed and use them as evidence of improper conduct, although nothing legally prevents the distribution of condoms.

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