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Expert urges G20 to take measures against animal-borne diseases

The global community must take preventive steps against contagious and non-contagious animal-borne diseases from ...

Health Ministry records 7,201 leprosy cases in 2021

The Health Ministry has said it recorded 7,201 new leprosy cases caused by mycobacterium leprae across the nation in ...

First local transmission of Omicron confirmed in Indonesia

The Health Ministry has detected the first local case of transmission of the COVID-19 variant Omicron involving a ...

PON Papua

Fogging conducted to stop malaria spread during Papua PON: ministry

Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin has said that fogging is being carried out in areas organizing the XX Papua ...

Indonesia boosts drug supplies for ODHA amid pandemic

The Indonesian Ministry of Health disclosed that it has increased the provision of drugs for people living with ...

Indonesia joins push for sustainable health through GHSP

At the Global Health Summit earlier this year, President Joko Widodo had exhorted G20 countries to "take part to ...

Indonesia launches Global Health Security Programme with FAO, USAID

The Indonesian Agriculture Ministry, in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), through the ...

COVID-19 immunization: Govt collecting data on health workers

The government has begun listing the first stage recipients of the COVID-19 vaccine after millions of doses from ...

FAO, Antara deliver briefing on animal-to-human diseases in Indonesia

The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s  Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) ...

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Government's intervention helps control dengue outbreak

As Indonesia is experiencing the peak of rainy season in January and February this year, mosquito-borne viral disease ...

Dengue fever claims lives of eight East Sumba residents

Eight residents of East Sumba District, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province, have died of dengue fever so far. The ...

Health Ministry sends 100 units of dengue RDT instruments to Papua

The Health Ministry has distributed 100 small packs of dengue rapid diagnostic test (RDT) instrument to ...

Jakarta regional general hospitals offer free treatment for dengue patients

Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan has ordered all regional general hospitals (RSUDs) in the capital to treat dengue ...

15,132 dengue fever cases reported as of Feb 1

As many as 15,132 cases of dengue fever were reported in Indonesia, with 145 deaths, as of February 1, 2019, according ...

Health Ministry calls for quick response over DHF breakout

Director of Prevention and Control of Vector and Zoonotic Diseases, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, urged health care facilities ...