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Calophyllum lanigerum or Bintangor is among rare plants which researchers believe it can cure HIV/AIDS. (illustration)

Kamis , 13 Jun 2013, 21:05 WIB

Some rare plants in Batam can cure HIV/AIDS

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BATAM - Researchers of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) found some rare plants in Batam forest which can cure HIV/AIDS. LIPI researcher's team found them during exploration...

Women activists hold an anti-smoking campaign in Jakarta, on May 26 or few day before World No Tobacco Day on Friday. The poster says

Jumat , 31 May 2013, 21:06 WIB

No cigarette advertising in World No Tobacco Day

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Tifatul Sembiring said he had sent circulate letter underlined that cigarette advertisment could not broadcast during today's World No Tobacco Day. The letter was addressed to all managing director of radio and television broadcasters in Indonesia. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the first World No Tobacco Day on May 31,...

Rabu , 29 May 2013, 20:37 WIB

Indonesia to mass produce birth control pills for men

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Indonesia will mass produce birth control...

Selasa , 14 May 2013, 00:14 WIB

Two new diseases could both spark global outbreaks (2)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, Here's a crash course in what we know...

Selasa , 14 May 2013, 00:11 WIB

Two new diseases could both spark global outbreaks (1)

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON - Two respiratory viruses in different parts...

Kamis , 09 May 2013, 23:12 WIB

Indonesia launches new vaccine of bird flu

Medicine for patients are lined up for distribution at the HIV/AIDS ward in a hospital. (illustration)

Rabu , 01 May 2013, 23:16 WIB

Thirty three foreign tourists in Bali were HIV/AIDS positive

Chickens are kept in a cage waiting to be sold at a market in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, April 25, 2013.

Senin , 29 Apr 2013, 17:40 WIB

Ministry of Health installs thermal scanner to anticipate H7N9

Two medical workers burn ducks infected by bird flu in Lampung. (file photo)

Rabu , 17 Apr 2013, 18:32 WIB

New cases of bird flu reported in Yogya

A worker adjusts a water dispensing device at a chicken farm in Changfeng county, Anhui province, April 14, 2013.

Senin , 15 Apr 2013, 00:02 WIB

China says bird flu death toll rises to 13

A member of medical staff conducts an HIV and AIDS test in Kediri, East Java. (file photo)

Sabtu , 13 Apr 2013, 22:51 WIB

Govt promotes 'three zeros' to prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS

Chickens sit inside cages after a New Taipei City Department of Environmental Protection worker sprayed sterilising anti-H7N9 virus disinfectant around chicken stalls in a market in New Taipei City April 8, 2013.

Kamis , 11 Apr 2013, 21:58 WIB

Govt asks airports to specially check passengers from China

Rabu , 10 Apr 2013, 06:15 WIB

Govt lists imported products from China

Selasa , 09 Apr 2013, 15:49 WIB

Govt beefs up monitoring airport amid outbreak of new flu

Governor of West Papua Abraham O Atururi (file photo)

Kamis , 04 Apr 2013, 22:13 WIB

Governor of West Papua denies reports of malnutrition

A vendor waits for customers near chicken cages at a market in Fuyang city, in central China's Anhui province, Sunday, March 31, 2013. Two Shanghai men have died from a lesser-known type of bird flu in the first known human deaths from the strain.

Senin , 01 Apr 2013, 23:59 WIB

Questions in China on how H7N9 flu strain killed two

Smoking increases the risk of TB infection. (illustration)

Senin , 01 Apr 2013, 00:52 WIB

Smoking makes Indonesians more prone to TB

An HIV-infected patient displays medicine at a hospital in Payao province, about 600 km (373 miles) north of Bangkok, Thailand. (file photo)

Rapid HIV treatment points to "functional cure" for AIDS

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON - Treating people with HIV rapidly after they have become infected with the virus that causes AIDS may be enough to achieve a "functional cure" in a small proportion of patients diagnosed early, according to new research. Scientists in France who followed 14 patients who were treated very swiftly with HIV drugs but then stopped treatment found that...

Rabu , 13 Mar 2013, 21:17 WIB

Prosthetic foot for leprosy patients

A Coca-Cola poster about the city's new beverage ban is displayed at a pizza shop, Friday, March 8, 2013, at New York's Penn Station.

Selasa , 12 Mar 2013, 10:41 WIB

NY fails to ban oversized sugary drinks

Senin , 11 Mar 2013, 07:35 WIB

Even for sperm, there is a season

A four year toddler from Madura, East Java, suffers malnutrition as the threats of malnutrition still lingers in Indonesia. (illustration)

Senin , 04 Mar 2013, 23:43 WIB

Malnutrition threats still linger in Indonesia

Cases of stillbirth and the death rates of mother in the process of delivery are still high in Indonesia. (illustration)

Sabtu , 16 Feb 2013, 23:58 WIB

Minister of Health: Maternal mortality rate still high

National Agency of Food and Drug Control (BPOM) confiscate illegal drugs from Jakarta and Yogyakarta (file photo)

Jumat , 08 Feb 2013, 20:55 WIB

BPOM raises awareness on illegal food and drug

Ahad , 13 Jan 2013, 22:05 WIB

Govt prepares 25 million doses of vaccine to prevent avian flu

Senin , 07 Jan 2013, 18:20 WIB

The new avian flu vaccine available in the market on February

Health workers spray disinfectant in a duck farm to prevent the spread of avian flu virus sub clade 2.3.2.1 (illustration)

Jumat , 04 Jan 2013, 17:04 WIB

Thousands ducks infected by H5N1 in Subang

Indonesia will lift ban on poultry imports from Australia after the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) declared that Australia was free from bird flu. (illustration)

Kamis , 27 Dec 2012, 22:45 WIB

Indonesian govt takes steps to prevent bird flu outbreak

A health worker shows avian influenza vaccine during a vaccination in Banten. Indonesia will produce its own H5N1 vaccine early 2013. (illustration)

Kamis , 27 Dec 2012, 19:00 WIB

Indonesia to produce its own H5N1 vaccine early 2013

Health workers cull chickens including ducks in North Jakarta as a precaution measure to prevent the spread of avian influenza and its new variant, clade 2321. (illustration)

Rabu , 26 Dec 2012, 23:00 WIB

Avian flu causes 113,700 ducks died in three porvinces

Sabtu , 22 Dec 2012, 18:00 WIB

Chinese vaccine allegedly spreads avian influenza

Rabu , 19 Dec 2012, 21:30 WIB

Indonesia to ban poultry from China

Rabu , 19 Dec 2012, 18:18 WIB

Indonesia bans Australian poultry import

Senin , 17 Dec 2012, 20:10 WIB

A 4 year old child died because of avian influenza

Officials from Ministry of Agriculture prepare chicken cull in Denpasar, Bali. (file photo)

Govt plans to depopulate poultry due to avian influenza fear

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - Government plans to depopulate poultry to prevent the spreading of avian influenza. Any poultry living within a kilometer radius from infected poultry will be depopulated. Director of Animal Health Ministry of Agriculture, Pujiatmoko, said government was still communicating, educating, and informing the breeders. Avian influenza cases recently occurred in several regions in Indonesia, particularly West Java, Central Java and...

Kamis , 13 Dec 2012, 23:13 WIB