In this special early episode Jemma Purdey talks about the current covid surge with Dr Dicky Budiman, a medical doctor, epidemiologist and advisor to governments and international organisations for more than 20 years.
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Health authorities reported 14,536 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, the highest daily rise since the pandemic hit the country last year, as Indonesia passed the 2 million confirmed cases mark.
The prevalence of childhood stunting in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) has been ascribed to low public awareness, especially among caregivers and health workers. But the shortage in local food supplies, lack of sanitation and insufficient healthcare are also contributing factors.
COVID-19 has brought unprecedented challenges worldwide. Our analysis focuses on four aspects of the pandemic’s impact on seaweed farming communities in Maros, Barru and Pangkep in South Sulawesi.
AIC Senior Fellow from Universitas Airlangga, Dr Christrijogo Sumartono, is a practising anaesthetist in his home city of Surabaya.
Pandemi COVID-19 sangat mempengaruhi sektor kesehatan di Indonesia, negara dengan ekonomi terbesar di Asia Tenggara.
Indonesia will receive 50 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine jointly made by Pfizer (PFE.N) and BioNTech (22UAy.DE) as the nation grapples with a surge in cases.
Pandemi COVID-19 sangat mempengaruhi sektor kesehatan di Indonesia, negara dengan ekonomi terbesar di Asia Tenggara. Salah satu dampak yang paling serius adalah tingginya angka infeksi dan kematian di kalangan tenaga kesehatan.
Indonesia will face “an explosion of cases” if health authorities don’t take action, epidemiologists have warned, following a jump in cases on the country’s two most populous islands.
Forty years ago, on June 5, 1981, a different health threat emerged that caused global alarm. But it would take decades for an effective treatment for HIV and AIDS to become widely available, and there is still no vaccine.
Trade ministers from the Asia-Pacific region agreed Saturday on achieving a strong economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, starting with accelerating vaccine distribution.
“I prefer to treat COVID-19 patients (rather) than HIV-patients.” It is difficult to imagine a health care worker saying this to a patient, but it is evidence of the stigma that continues to surround HIV-patients in Indonesia.
The 74th World Health Assembly (WHA) takes place from May 24 to June 1. This year’s gathering is likely to be all about COVID-19, but here I want to talk about a different disease—leprosy—and a resolution that was adopted at the WHA exactly 30 years ago.
Ground-breaking studies published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine and PLOS Medicine have found large numbers of malaria parasites hiding in the human spleen where they actively multiply in a previously unrecognised life cycle.
In August 2020 polls suggested that 27 percent of Indonesians were hesitant to receive the vaccine and by December the results of a phone survey suggested only 37% were sure they would accept vaccination when it was offered.
Kementerian Kesehatan (Kemenkes) memperluas sasaran vaksinasi Covid-19 kepada kelompok umur pra-lansia dimulai dari usia 50 tahun ke atas.
