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NAM demands release of Palestinian political detainees in Israel

The deep concern expressed by Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa about Palestinian political ...

Bhutan seeks Nepal support for UN Security Council seat

Bhutan has "informally" urged Nepal to support its bid for rotational non-permanent membership in the UN Security ...

World Health Leader Tapped to Lead UCSF Global Health Efforts

-        The University of California, San Francisco has appointed ...

Leading Experts Call for Urgent Action to Avoid Stroke Crisis Across Asia-Pacific Region

-         - Experts from medical and patient communities call on national ...

WHO supports Jakarta City`s no-smoking program

The World Health Organization (WHO) supports the Jakarta city government`s no-smoking areas program as stipulated in ...

Rabies cases increasing in various RI regions

Several parts of Indonesia are running the latent risk of a rabies outbreak but the past few months have seen a sharp ...

Addressing malaria global elimination

- Malaria is known as a frightening specter across the world, especially in countries with vast tropical forests, such ...

Thousand of people March for World`s Malaria Day campaign

Thousands of people grouped in the Indonesia Malaria Care Foundation (IMCF) staged a long march in front of Balinese ...

New approach needed to stop HIV/AIDS spread in Indonesia

With four years to go before the deadline of MDGs in 2015, Indonesia is still struggling to stop or reverse the upward ...

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 ...

Sumatra on alert as bird flu comes back

The sudden death of thousands of chickens has been reported in several cities on Sumatra Island over the past several ...

US, Indonesia continue to fight avian influenza

The United States Government in partnership with the Government of Indonesia on Thursday launched a project to reduce ...

WHO says no evidence of radiation spread from Japan

The World Health Organisation`s representative in China said on Wednesday that there is no evidence of any significant ...

Two children believed infected by bird flu

Two children in the West Sumatran city of Padang are suspected of having contracted bird flu , a doctor at M.Jamil ...

Rising status of women, increased risk of smoking

Millions of women in developing countries risk disease and early death in the coming decades as the tobacco industry ...