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Climate change risks disease spread: Health Minister

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin emphasized the need for health infrastructure improvements to address climate ...

Need to consistently raise public awareness on malaria: MPR

Deputy Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Lestari Moerdijat has called on the government ...

AMR control system at Tulungagung hospital designated as pilot project

The Indonesian Health Ministry commended the implementation of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) control system at Dr. ...

Malaria cases down, but still second highest in Asia: govt

Indonesia's malaria case count is still the second highest in Asia after India despite a decline in cases by around ...

Rakerkesnas helps make Indonesia a developed country: President

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated that the 2024 National Working Meeting on Health (Rakerkesnas) played a ...

Spike in arboviral diseases shows need for vaccine development: expert

The rising incidence and spread of arboviral diseases to new places show the need for the development of new vaccines, ...

Health Minister pushes Wolbachia for dengue fight at Bali summit

Indonesia's Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin emphasized the importance of using Wolbachia in controlling dengue ...

Climate change driving up dengue infections: Ministry

The Health Ministry has reported that in 2023, it managed to bring down the number of dengue cases from 143 thousand to ...

Govt affirms importance of housewives being educated about arbovirus

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin deemed it vital for housewives to be knowledgeable about arbovirus handling, as he ...

Dengue fever deaths in Indonesia up 179 percent

The number of deaths from dengue fever in Indonesia this year has surged by 179.4 percent to 475 as of the 15th week, ...

Health Ministry issues dengue warning to Bali tourists

The Health Ministry has issued an early warning asking local and foreign tourists to remain alert against dengue ...

No risk of B virus outbreak in Indonesia so far: Ministry

Head of the communication and public services bureau at the Health Ministry Siti Nadia Tarmizi stated that they had yet ...

455 dead from dengue fever so far: ministry

The Health Ministry has reported that as of the 14th week of 2024, at least 455 people have died of dengue fever in ...

Indonesia's drug-sensitive TB cases recorded at 808,000 in 2023: govt

Deputy for communicable disease prevention and control at the Health Ministry, Imran Pambudi, said that in 2023, the ...

Increase in dengue cases had yet to reach maximum point: Ministry

A Health Ministry's official stated that the increase in cases of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) recently had not ...