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Yogyakarta health service re-verifies stunting cases in city

The Yogyakarta City Health Service has re-verified the stunting data to ensure its validity for policy-making purposes ...

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G20: Indonesia strives for health diplomacy in pandemic preparedness

Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has seriously impacted countries both with strong and fragile health ...

Support WHO initiative to develop new TB vaccine: Indonesia

Indonesia has expressed its support for the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) initiative to develop a new ...

Gov't confirms 2.9 million people without access to health facilities

The Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration (Kemendes PDTT) reported that over ...

Gov't to prioritize eight provinces for TB eradication

The government will focus on eight provinces for accelerating the reduction of tuberculosis (TB) incidence and deaths ...

TB control forum seeking to boost multi-sector commitment: ministry

The Tuberculosis (TB) Multi-Sector Forum established by the central government is aiming to strengthen multi-sectoral ...

Complete basic immunization still eluded 1.7 million children

Around 1.7 million Indonesian children had not yet received complete basic immunization during the 2019-2021 period or ...

People should remain cautious before going maskless outdoors: Ministry

Health Promotion and People's Empowerment Director at the Ministry of Health Imran Agus Nurali urged people to ...

Jakarta encourages optimizing measures for tuberculosis eradication

The Jakarta Deputy Governor, Ahmad Riza Patria, encourages the optimization of tuberculosis-alleviation measures since ...

Global funding for TB control is multiplying: Health Ministry

Global funding for the Tuberculosis (TB) prevention and control program was agreed to be increased by four folds ...

Ministry expands mobile X-ray service to cut TB transmission

The Health Ministry has expanded the X-ray mobile service to intensify the tracking of active tuberculosis (TB) cases ...

Minister presses for smarter investment among measures to handle TB

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has called for various measures to handle tuberculosis (TB), including smarter ...

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G20 Health Working Group meeting held in Yogyakarta

The Ministry of Health held the first G20 Health Working Group (HWG) titled "Harmonizing Global Health Protocol ...

One million Indonesians annually seek medical treatment abroad: gov't

The Ministry of Health stated that the number of Indonesian citizens going abroad, especially to Malaysia, Singapore, ...

Decline in visits to health facilities hampers TB treatment: ministry

The reduced number of public visits to health facilities during the pandemic has become one of the challenges to ...