Jakarta – Parents of Tiara Deborah Simanjorang, an infant who died after reportedly being turned away by a West Jakarta hospital because of financial constraints, have demanded an apology from the

Jakarta – Jakarta Health Agency head Koesmedi Priharto has said that fewer than half of hospitals in Jakarta have partnered with the Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS Kesehatan).

Jakarta – Mitra Keluarga Karyasehat, Indonesia's largest listed hospital operator by market capitalization, came under the spotlight over the weekend when details of the tragic death of a 4-month-o

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura, Papua – The Papua administration is stepping up efforts to prevent the spread of HIV by providing antibody tests to pregnant women seeking healthcare services at hospi

Jakarta – Steep increases in cigarette excise taxes, instead of incremental ones, will do a better job in reducing poverty and improving health, the director at the University of Indonesia's Center

Nithin Coca – They're unavoidable in much of the country. New billboards are popping up all over Indonesia, aimed at a young, increasingly progressive population.

Jakarta – The Jakarta office of the National AIDS Commission (KPAP) has revealed that the number of people living with AIDS in Jakarta has increased by 563, rising from 8,093 people in December 201

Jon Afrizal, Jakarta – Indonesia needs to reduce its dependency on imported healthcare equipment, an official has said.

Paulina Quintao – Some 97 percent of all children in Timor-Leste under the age of five years old received their full immunization according to national data provided by the Ministry of Health 2016.

Jakarta – Local governments may need to double their contributions to the country's universal health insurance this year, to prevent the collapse of the state-run health care system, a minister sai

Jewel Topsfield, Sumatra – Aldi? Rizal is known around the world as "Indonesia's smoking baby".

Jakarta – Indonesians spend the most money on treating diseases caused by obesity in Southeast Asia last year, a report by a public-private organization showed.

Paulina Quintao – The Director of Clinical Services of the National Hospital Guido Valadares (HNGV), Flavio Brandao said medical specialist services in Timor-Leste still depend on foreign specialis

Eveline Danubrata and Stefanno Reinard, Jakarta – A proposed Indonesian tobacco law will roll back regulations to discourage smoking in a country that already has one of the highest smoking rates i

Jakarta – Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the National Commission on Tobacco Control (Komnas PT), a coalition of organizations that has been staunchly campaigning on tobacco issues in Indo

Ganug Nugroho Adi, Surakarta – The Klaten administration issued a new regulation that could result in jail time of up to six months and a fine of Rp 50 million for people who discriminated HIV pati

Moses Ompusunggu, Jakarta – Ahead of World No Tobacco Day on May 31, Indonesia's largest teachers group signed on Wednesday a declaration to underline the role of educators in supporting measures f

Lucy Marks – A program to find and treat children in East Timor with rheumatic heart disease is reducing the rates of heart failure and preventable deaths, researchers say.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Army has pledged to build 1 million toilets for impoverished families in villages across the archipelago in an effort to help improve access to sanitation facilities in rem

Jakarta – Indonesia's role in global development was recognized when then-president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono in 2012 co-chaired the United Nation's High-level Panel on the post-2015 agenda.

Jakarta – As the House of Representatives is about to deliberate the controversial Tobacco bill, the Health Ministry is standing its ground in opposing the draft, saying cigarette consumption is a

Paulina Quintao - Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Combating the HIV/AIDS Timor-Leste (KNKS-TL) Daniel Marcal said HIV was a significant threat for the country's human resources i

Paulina Quintao – The Ministry of Health has received $6.4 million in funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to implement a mass drug distribution program across the countr

Paulina Quintao – The head of the Department of Non-Communicable Disease Helder Juvinal said the tobacco control law had yet to be properly implemented as the Health Ministry was still in the proce

Paulina Quintao – The National Hospital has issued a directive to doctors not to attend to patients with common illnesses such as headaches, coughs and colds.

Paulina Quintao – The government has established a special independent authority to conduct routine inspection and monitoring of products and food sold in restaurants and supermarkets across the co

Paulina Quintao – The National Eye Clinic has informed it now has the capacity to perform surgery on patients with sight problems including retinal detachment operations.

Paulina Quintao – According to results from a quick data assessment report on blind prevention from 2016, 2.8% of Timorese people over the age of 50 suffers from some type of eye disease.

Jakarta – A shortage of healthcare facilities and medical practitioners has hampered efforts to combat whooping cough and HIV/AIDS, two of the main health problems affecting people in Papua.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – While facing more frequent exposure to HIV infection, few key populations in West Java get tested for HIV, hampering efforts to tackle the spread of the chronic illness in the

Liza Yosephine, Jakarta – Indonesia must step up efforts to address structural and systemic issues, both in law and practice, to achieve its "ambitious" goal of establishing universal health care b

Benny Mawel and Victor Mambor, Jayapura, Jubi – United Nations Special Rapporteur on health, Dainius Puras said distrust has make health problem in Papua become even more complicated.

Paulina Quintao – The Timor-Leste government and partners are developing a prevention plan to respond to rabies in the case of an outbreak.

Jakarta – Indonesia's government has proposed issuing a decree to govern the domestic tobacco industry, a move that could sharply raise cigarette output in the world's fourth-most populous nation,

Paulina Quintao – Clinical Director at the National Hospital of Guido Valadares Dr Flavio Brandao said that the number of kidney patients was continuing to increase each year due to problems access

Jakarta – An expert has warned that the deliberation of the tobacco bill is not worth being continued because it contradicts several prevailing laws.

Haeril Halim and Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The tobacco bill is not dead yet, despite the government's earlier claim that it would kill the bill.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to health will visit Papua as part of a two-week trip to Indonesia.

Indonesia's President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo this week rejected a draft law that if approved could have led to a sharp increase in tobacco output, putting himself on a collision course with major pla

Haeril Halim and Margareth S.

Margaret Wurth – In the next week, Indonesian President Joko ("Jokowi") Widodo will decide whether to encourage parliament to move forward with a draft tobacco bill aimed at increasing domestic tob

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – As the deadline for the government to respond to the House of Representatives' second attempt to deliberate the controversial tobacco bill approaches, President Jo

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Paulina Quintao – The government through the Health Ministry has allocated funding to establish a special mental health clinic, with an appropriate site now in the process of being identified.

Paulina Quintao – Deputy Ministry of Health Ana Isabel Soares said improving the professional ethics and attitude of medical personnel remains a significant challenge for the Ministry of Health, pa

Jakarta – Anti-tobacco activists have accused three private broadcasters of airing cigarette ads during family viewing hours in another example of just how aggressive tobacco companies can be in ad

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – Life has never been easy for children living with HIV/AIDS, a cruel disease that requires costly daily treatments.

Paulina Quintao – The Dili municipality authority has handed responsibility for waste management to the private sector.

The ultrasound machine donated to Timor-Leste by Forbes Medical Centre is in constant use in Same Hospital, saving patients a very long trip by rough roads to the capital Dili.

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