About Us

PT Foundation (previously known as Pink Triangle Sdn Bhd) is a community-based, voluntary non-profit making organization providing HIV/AIDS education, prevention, care and support programmes, sexuality awareness and empowerment programmes for vulnerable communities in Malaysia. We work with 5 vulnerable communities mainly drug users, sex workers, transsexuals, men who have sex with men (MSM), and people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV).

Board of Trustees and Executive Committee

Dato' Simon Foong Trustee

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Dato' Rosie Tan Trustee

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Hisham Hussein Chairperson

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Raymond Tai Acting Executive Director

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Joanna Yusof Treasurer

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Kartini Slamah Executive Committee Member

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Khairuddin Mahmud Executive Committee Member

Khairuddin has been with PT Foundation for 3 years and 5 months now. He started working with Ikhlas Drug User Programme on 8th November 2006. The Needle Syringe Exchange Program (NSEP) had been operating for 8 months by that time. Khairuddin is originally from PENGASIH, an association of recovering drug user, doing Therapeutic Community Programme for their drug and substance abuse rehabilitation centre. He served PENGASIH for 10 years, with his last position as Head of Finance and Strategies in Finance Division.

Khairuddin is now the Programme Manager of IKHLAS and responsible for the overall management of 13 dedicated trained staff and the administration (including overseing finance and stock), leading the NSEP site team to focus on the key priorities of NSEP in both the long and short term.

In his spare time Khairuddin enjoys music very much. He plays the blues harmonica with his friends and often been invited for awareness campaign, reaching out to youngsters and the high risk groups. In between songs they send messages on the danger of drugs, HIV transmission, and safer sex.

PT Foundation Financial Reports

Our Mission

Our mission is to be the most efficient community-based organization providing information, education, and care services relating to HIV/AIDS and sexuality in Malaysia, working with communities that are difficult to reach due to societal discrimination.

PT Foundation's 5 Communities Programmes

With much assistance from the Malaysian Aids Council (MAC), we oversee 5 communities within the foundation. An elected Core Group and a Chairperson represent each of these communities, allowing us to lead, strengthen and support an effective response to HIV/AIDS.

People Living with HIV/AIDS:
Positive Living Programme
Drug Users:
IKHLAS Programme
Sex Workers:
Sex Workers Programme
Transgenders:
Maknyah Programme
Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM):
Pink Triangle Malaysia

Background

PT Foundation was founded in 1987 to provide a telephone counseling service for HIV/AIDS and sexuality issues. Over the years, we have expanded our services responding to the needs and concerns of various communities that are discriminated against due to their way of life or HIV/AIDS status.

Objectives

We are committed to creating an enabling environment for marginalized communities in the following ways:

To help minimize the rate of infection of HIV/AIDS amongst our communities
To help provide care and support and improve the quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS
To help reduce discrimination of our communities that is based on ignorance and lack of information
To empower our communities by providing them a safe space to be themselves

Our Way of Working

We consult, guide and empower
We are non-judgemental
We are volunteer-based
We provide support, hope and care
We educate our communities for sustained change

At PT Foundation, we believe real change - that makes a positive and lasting impact in people's lives - takes place through community development methods as recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Development Program (UNDP). These methods include peer outreach, safe spaces, community-appropriate information and ensuring that programs are largely 'owned' and managed by the respective communities.

PT Foundation is a partner organization of Malaysian AIDS Council (MAC), an umbrella body representing non-governmental organizations doing HIV/AIDS work in Malaysia.

Advocacy and Research

Advocacy

Advocacy is a crucial element supporting PT in delivering our objectives and purpose to the general public. PT Foundation is regularly invited to give talks and conduct seminars or workshops in corporations, hospitals, factories, companies, charities, youth organizations, schools, colleges and universities on HIV and the communities it affects. Advocacy at PT not only involves sensitization but also lobbying different stakeholders on human rights, sexuality and HIV issues.

Workshops and Information Sessions are an important component of our advocacy and educational programs. We are regularly invited to give talks and conduct seminars or workshops in corporations, hospitals, companies, charities, youth organizations, schools, colleges and universities. We strive to deliver the proper education and information on HIV/AIDS, as well as gender and sexuality, in our effort to reduce the infection rates and to stop stigma and discrimination.

If you would like to know more or get involved in PT advocacy work please call our Advocacy manager, Kevin Baker,
at (03) 4044-4611.

Research

PT Foundation believes in implementing evidence based programs. To this end, PT Foundation is committed to conducting research such as the following:

Surveillance Studies
Operational Research
Social Behavioral Studies

Our research is collected on a basis of participation, initiation, and collaboration with government and academic institutions, or other multi-lateral organizations. Please contact us directly if you would like to involve us in your research project. (03)4044-4611 or by email at info@ptfmalaysia.org.

Global Networking

We collaborate with many international and regional bodies to keep abreast of the latest development of HIV/AIDS.We look to these international bodies for funding and technical resources, as well as to adopt best practices from around the world through our global network. PT Foundation works with the following organizations: