Paulina Quintao – Members of Parliament (MPs) have criticized health directors who they say are prone to walking off the job during office hours.

Paulina Quintao – Women's advocacy group Alola Foundation has withdrawn funding from five scholarship recipients because they fell pregnant.

Paulina Quintao – The National Commission to Combat HIV/AIDS – Timor-Leste (CNCS-TL) is working in partnership with the government to establish a shelter to house HIV/AIDS sufferers.

Kriti Sharma – "My parents thought I was possessed – they used to put garlic and salt on my body to rid me of evil spirits," Erifah, 49, who lives in Jakarta, told me.

Paulina Quintao – Research conducted by the Ministry of Health and UNICEF in 2013 shows that half of all Timorese children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – In the absence of data on suicides in the country, the Health Ministry will attempt to compile statistics based on figures from related institutions.

Timika – The Mimika chapter of the National AIDS Commission (KPA) says that as of the middle of this year, the number of people with HIV/AIDS in the regency has reached 3,900.

Paulina Quintao – Member of Parliament (MP) Ilda Maria da Conceicao has called on the Ministry of Health to explain why a program which provides corn flour to expectant mothers has been

John McBeth, Jakarta – When Indonesian president-elect Joko Widodo takes power in October, he will be confronted by a laundry list of pressing issues, ranging from budget-sapping energy

Greg Ansley – A major health crisis is emerging in East Timor as the impoverished nation's few doctors, hospitals and clinics are overwhelmed by endemic diseases, malnutrition, and seri

Paulina Quintao – More mothers chose to breastfeed their babies in 2013 than in 2010, Ministry of Health data shows.

Jakarta – The National Social Security Board (DJSN) has complained that the national health insurance (JKN) program, which is managed by the Social Security Management Agency (BPJS), ha

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Sophie McNeill – Doctors and healthcare workers in East Timor are battling to save people from diseases that most Australians may think have been consigned to history.

Sophie McNeill – Doctors say a worsening health crisis in East Timor is causing hundreds of preventable deaths, including those of many children.

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Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – A new government regulation, which will come into effect next week, will allow drug users in the country to be sent to rehabilitation centers rather than bei

Paulina Quintao – The Secretary-General for the National Commission for Combating HIV/AIDS in Timor-Leste (CNCS-TL) Daniel Marcal has recommended to the government the inclusion of sexu

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The number of Indonesians participating in the ambitious national health insurance program launched under the Social Security Organizing Body, or BPJS,

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Dili – Repeated bouts of violence in Timor Leste's recent past and a persistent sense of injustice have had a lasting mental health impact, new research shows.

Margie Mason, Jakarta – Tobacco companies on Tuesday largely ignored an Indonesian deadline to put graphic health warnings on all cigarette packs, another setback for anti-smoking effor

Jakarta – The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA), a regional network of anti-tobacco advocates, says it fully supports the Indonesian public health community in its fight

Peter Taylor Presenter, Burning Desire – East Timor has one of the highest smoking rates in the world, with nearly two-thirds of its men hooked on the habit.

Dili – New data indicate that stunting among under-five children is being reduced in Timor-Leste, but experts warn much greater investment is needed in areas such as micronutrient suppl

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Amid controversy, the Surabaya City Council has passed a draft bylaw on the control of alcoholic beverage distribution.

Paulina Quintao – National Commission on Combating HIV/SIDA Timor-Leste (CNCS-TL) General Secretary Daniel Marcal has said education is key to combatting the rise of the rates of HIV/AI

Jakarta – Indonesia has made slow progress in improving the lives of mothers and their children in recent years, falling behind regional neighbors Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Health has begun a campaign to raise awareness of the context of draft laws to control the sale and use of cigarettes in order to get ideas about how t

Jenny Munro, ANU – West Papua, comprised of two provinces in eastern Indonesia, is home to the fastest growing HIV epidemic in the Asia Pacific.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Violence against Women (Komnas Perempuan) called on the government to raise the legal minimum age for marriage from 16 to 18 years old for females.

Jakarta – A coalition of NGOs has urged voters not to vote for candidates who oppose tobacco-control measures in the upcoming legislative election.

Jakarta – Experts say the Indonesian government is failing to protect people from the dangers of tobacco, as indicated by the slow progress in the ratification of the UN Framework Conve

Jakarta – Labor unions have accused the government and the Social Security Management Agency (BPJS) of failing to carry out a mandate, in accordance with the Constitution, which require

Jakarta – Indonesia and 10 other countries in the World Health Organization's (WHO) Southeast Asian region on Thursday celebrated being certified polio-free.

Herman Genie, Jakarta – The government has blamed pregnancy at a young age as the main contributor to Indonesia's high maternal mortality rate, saying that many young women are not read

Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – Bylaws banning and controlling liquor sales in shopping centers, hotels, restaurants and nightspots would not curb alcohol-related deaths because drinking w

Jakarta – Observers and experts from various sectors say that Indonesia needs to ratify the UN Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) for long-term health and economic benefits.

Havana, Cuba – Cuban doctors in East Timor are drawing up a comprehensive strategy to fight Cancer based on the records on the disease collected by the medical brigade in that country a

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Markus Junianto Sihalolo, Jakarta – The Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Indonesian Council of Ulema (MUI) are engaged in a tug-of-war over the right to issue Halal certificates an

Jakarta – Women's ability to breastfeed is a national asset, and hence the state has a great responsibility to fully support the breastfeeding mothers' movement, a breastfeeding mothers

Nurfika Osman, Jakarta – Four months before the implementation of a regulation requiring pictorial warnings on the dangers of smoking on cigarette packaging, efforts to comply appear to

Jakarta – With the majority of the public still unaware of the national healthcare program (JKN), the government initiative remains unpopular, two months after being implemented.

Paulina Quintao – The recent spread of HIV/AIDS poses a big threat to the entire population of Timor-Leste.

Jakarta – Two of three children with HIV/AIDS in Tanah Sereal, Tambora, had to be treated at house while the other child, a 6-year-old, who was in critical condition was treated at the

Alina Musta'idah, Jakarta – A legislator has demanded the overhaul of a city-run hospital in Bandarlampung, Lampung province, in the wake of the death of an elderly patient after he was

Basten Gokkon – Indonesia is facing setbacks in achieving its Millennium Development Goal of reducing the maternal mortality rate, due to a lack of health services for women during preg

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – As the government increases the budget allocation for health programs, graft has worsened in the sector, according to an antigraft watchdog.