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Health Ministry using special strategies for TB handling amid pandemic

The Ministry of Health has implemented four special strategies in efforts to control tuberculosis (TB) in the midst of ...

School-age children at high risk of contracting TB: Health Ministry

Schools in Indonesia play a significant role in preventing tuberculosis transmission among school-age children ...

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Indonesia set to forge forward in TB handling amid COVID-19 pandemic

Several nations observed Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 in a somber, concerned manner, as the fight against TB, one ...

Only 24% tuberculosis patients have accessed health service facilities

Only 24 percent of tuberculosis (TB) sufferers in Indonesia have accessed health service facilities, Director of ...

TB eradication program should move forward despite COVID-19 pandemic

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin emphasized that the tuberculosis (TB) eradication program in Indonesia should move ...

Tuberculosis reduces productivity levels across age groups: VP

Tuberculosis has had an impact on lowering the productivity levels in Indonesia, as productive age groups were most ...

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Indonesia committed to simultaneously handling TB and COVID-19

Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelagic nation, with over 17 thousand islands and a population of some 267 ...

Indonesia ranks third among TB high-burden nations: president

President Joko Widodo drew attention to the harrowing reality that Indonesia ranked third for the incidence of ...

Jokowi emphasizes on simultaneous handling of TB, COVID-19

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has thrown his weight behind the simultaneous handling of tuberculosis (TB) and ...

Jokowi cautions of high TB case count among productive-age populace

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has given a cautionary reminder of the high number of tuberculosis (TB) cases among ...

Merely 69% of 845,000 TB cases reported in Indonesia: ministry

The Health Ministry has estimated that only 69 percent of the 845 thousand cases of tuberculosis (TB) in Indonesia were ...

Ministry optimistic of revealing 80 percent of TB cases

The Health Ministry has set a target to discover 80 percent of the estimated 1,020,000 cases of tuberculosis (TB) ...

US assists Indonesian government in combating tuberculosis

The US Agency for International Development (USAID) has provided US$12 million in assistance to help combat ...

Success story of Indonesia`s fight against tuberculosis

Daeng Nuru from Langkai island, South Sulawesi province, sits for five hours in a small boat to get to Research Center ...

150,000 Indonesians die each year misusing antibiotics on TB

World Health Organization (WHO) data show that 150,000 people out of 440,000 tuberculosis sufferers in Indonesia died ...