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Tangerang's TB, diabetes screening service targets 38,000 residents

The Health Office of Tangerang city is targeting to provide tuberculosis and diabetes mellitus (TB-DM) screenings to ...

Ministry encourages excise tax on GGL-dense products to tackle obesity

The Health Ministry is encouraging the imposition of excise tax on products high in sugar, salt, and fat (GGL), as it ...

Ministry outlines three strategies to tackle obesity in Indonesia

The Indonesian Health Ministry highlights three communication strategies under the endeavors to encourage collective ...

Scientific proof required in reports of bird flu transmission to human

Indonesian Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin emphasized the need for scientific proof in connection with reports of ...

Bird flu can develop rapidly into severe lung disease: official

The Jakarta Provincial Health Service has informed that bird flu in humans can quickly develop into severe lung ...

Jakarta applies biosecurity to prevent bird flu spread

The Jakarta Food Security, Maritime Affairs, and Agriculture (KPKP) Office has implemented biosecurity procedures to ...

Jakarta mitigating risks of bird flu clade 2.3.4.4b transmission

The Jakarta Health Office is mitigating the risks of transmission of the current clade of H5N1 virus, called clade ...

Indonesia adopts GISRS platform as influenza surveillance system

Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) surveillance that was listed as part of GISRS, he explained. ILI-SARI ...

Ministry investigating dozens of poultry deaths in South Kalimantan

The Ministry of Health is still investigating the link between bird flu, or H5N1, and dozens of poultry deaths that ...

Minister urges community to fulfill rights of child cancer patients

Minister of Women's Empowerment and Child Protection (PPPA), Bintang Puspayoga, appealed to the public to offer ...

Govt builds cross-sectoral collaboration to eliminate TB by 2030

The Indonesian government is building cross-sectoral collaboration to achieve the target of eliminating tuberculosis ...

Health Ministry wary of bird flu infection transmission to humans

Indonesia's Ministry of Health is aware of the tendency of the new clade of Avian Flu virus 2.3.4.4b infecting ...

Some 70 percent cancer-related deaths occur in developing countries

Out of the 10 million deaths caused by cancer worldwide, some 70 percent are found to occur in developing countries, ...

Be wary of communicable diseases during seasonal transition: official

Head of the Jakarta Health Office's Epidemiology Surveillance and Immunization Ngabila Salama called ...

Ministry urges to implement Germas to prevent diabetes in children

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture appealed to the public to prevent diabetes in children by ...