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1 week ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Raka Adji |Rahmad Nasution
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Ministry of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions has highlighted its commitment to pursuing the target of eliminating tuberculosis (TB) by 2030 through village fund allocation. Deputy Minister of Villages and Development of Disadvantaged Regions Ahmad Riza Patria said in Jakarta on Friday that the central government allocates around Rp400 million (approximately US$24,198) to Rp1 billion (around US$60,496) to each village.
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1 week ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Resinta Sulistiyandari |Rahmad Nasution
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Presidential Communications Office (PCO) stated that tuberculosis must be addressed immediately to achieve a developed country status, as the disease claims lives and prevents Indonesian citizens from joining the global community and doing business. PCO Head Hasan Nasbi made the statement at the National Launch of the Joint Movement to Strengthen Villages Alert to Tuberculosis in Jakarta on Friday.
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1 week ago | 
jatim.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Resinta Sulistiyandari |Vicki Febrianto
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Presidential Communications Office (PCO) stated that tuberculosis must be addressed immediately to achieve a developed country status, as the disease claims lives and prevents Indonesian citizens from joining the global community and doing business. PCO Head Hasan Nasbi made the statement at the National Launch of the Joint Movement to Strengthen Villages Alert to Tuberculosis in Jakarta on Friday.
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1 week ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Resinta Sulistiyandari |Yuni Arisandy Sinaga
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin confirmed the safety of the M72 tuberculosis vaccine after successfully completing the first phase of clinical trials and is currently undergoing the third phase to assess its effectiveness. Sadikin explained that clinical trials involve three stages, the first of which is designed to determine the vaccine's safety. "Clinical trial 2 aims to check the safety on humans. Meanwhile, clinical trial 3 will evaluate its effectiveness.
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1 week ago | 
mataram.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Asri Mayang Sari |I Komang Suparta
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Hajj health team said that its members visited three Saudi Arabian hospitals to directly check the condition of pilgrims undergoing treatment at the facilities.The visit was part of the team's commitment to ensuring optimal health services for pilgrims.
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1 week ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Asri Mayang Sari |Rahmad Nasution
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Hajj health team said that its members visited three Saudi Arabian hospitals to directly check the condition of pilgrims undergoing treatment at the facilities. The visit was part of the team's commitment to ensuring optimal health services for pilgrims.
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2 weeks ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Resinta Sulistiyandari
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Health Ministry is pursuing efforts to ensure that children who have never received any immunizations, referred to as zero dose, are vaccinated to close the gap and achieve the ideal annual immunization coverage target. The ministry's director of immunization, Prima Yosephine, stated on Wednesday that the total number of unvaccinated children has increased to around 900 thousand.
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3 weeks ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Raka Adji
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Health stated that it aims to conduct 8 million malaria tests to identify 1.1 million cases of malaria in Indonesia, as estimated by the World Health Organization (WHO). The ministry's Director of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, Ina Agustina Isturini, reported a rise in malaria cases during an online media gathering for World Malaria Day 2025 here on Friday. Cases climbed to 543,965 in 2024 from around 418 thousand in 2023 and 440 thousand in 2022.
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3 weeks ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Resinta Sulistiyandari |Azis Kurmala
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Industry has informed that national exports of medical devices in 2024 reached US$273 million, with domestic medical device transactions via e-catalogs increasing by 48 percent. Director of the agricultural machinery and machinery industry at the ministry, Solehan, on Wednesday said that the launch of two ultrasound products by GE Healthcare is proof of the domestic medical device industry's readiness to scale up to the wider market.
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3 weeks ago | 
en.antaranews.com | Mecca Yumna |Resinta Sulistiyandari |Anton Santoso
Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia’s Ministry of Health will begin conducting psychiatric screenings twice a year for participants in the Specialist Doctor Education Program (PPDS), in a bid to monitor and support their mental health. Speaking at a joint press conference with the Ministry of Higher Education, Science, and Technology on Monday, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said recent concerns involving PPDS participants are alarming and have affected the wider public.
