TUBERCULOSIS DISEASE IN INDONESIA
TB disease is a disease that is categorized in infections caused by bacteria Mikobakterium tuberculosis. TB disease can strike at a...
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CHILDREN are PRECIOUS .Children need LOVE and need to be taught TO LOVE, Not to HATE !
We need to and can END HATRED, POVERTY , HOMELESSNESS in our lifetime if we TRY. WE MUST TRY for the CHILDREN. -
Increasingly high cost of health services was growing reducing the community's ability to reach the ground water of adequate health services. Health is a vital element and is a constitutive element in the process of a person's life. Without health, no activity could take place as usual. In the life of the nation, the health development really worth very investatif. Investment value lies in the availability of resources senatiasa "ready" and still avoid the attack of various diseases. However, there are still many people underestimate this. Countries, in some cases, too.Lack of State Budget is for the health sector, can be regarded as a low appreciation of the importance of this area as a buffer element, which if neglected will lead to a series of new problems that will actually absorb the greater financial state. A new kind of waste that comes from our own mistakes. Interesting news indeed lifted when the Department of Health on some time ago, mengelurkan concept of sustainable health development, known as the vision of Healthy Indonesia 2010. Various steps have been taken to promote the existence of the VIS in 2010, but later became weaker due to the policy of decentralization and finally "bounce" with the enactment of Law No. 32/2004 on Regional Government.
Health Financing
As an important subsystem in the organization of health Development, there are several important factors in health financing must be addressed. First, the magnitude (quantity) of health development budget provided by government and private sector donations. Second, the level of effectiveness and efficiency of use (functionalization) of the existing budget.
In our country, the proportion of the health development budget has never reached double-digit rates compared with the total APBN / APBD.
In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) has long ago standardize health development of a State budget in the range of at least 5% of GDP (Gross Domestic Product / Gross Domestic Product). In 2003, the meeting of the Regents / Mayors throughout Indonesia, Blitar has also agreed on the commitment of the health development budget in these areas amounted to 15% of the budget. In fact, Indonesia is only capable of fixing the health budget amounted to 2.4% of GDP, or about 2.2 to 2.5% of the national budget. -
HIV transmission in correctional institutions (LP) in Jakarta and surrounding areas recently worsen. Only in LP Cipinang , between January to March 2005, there were 30 cases of death convicts. That is, the average per month in the first quarter of 2005 was 10 people died. Directorate General of Corrections data also states, prisoners and detainees mortality in Jakarta and Tangerang from AIDS in 2004 increased 275 percent compared with the year 2003. More precisely, from eight deaths to 22 deaths due to AIDS.
Chairman of the National AIDS Commission Dr. Nafsiah Mboi states, the government should be responsible for the condition of detainees or prisoners who now inhabit the correctional institution. "The prisoners are still entitled to health care services and other living needs adequately. That is, if they are sick, you still have to get treatment, "said Nafsiah. LP's occupant deaths,caused of HIV, even AIDS. "This is a serious problem because it makes the LP as nurseries HIV / AIDS and barriers to overcome, especially because of very limited funds," said Nafsiah. -
Extreme poverty is a more serious problem for the world than climate change, terrorism, or the state of the global economy, according to a new annual global poll across 23 countries conducted for BBC World Service. When more than 25,000 people interviewed by GlobeScan were asked to say how serious they thought each of a range of global problems were, the following percentages of people rated these issues as “very serious”:
- 71%—extreme poverty
- 64%—the environment or pollution
- 63%—the rising cost of food and energy
- 59%—the spread of human diseases
- 59%—terrorism
- 58%—climate change
- 59%—human rights abuses
- 58%—the state of the global economy
- 57%—war or armed conflict
- 48%—violation of workers' rights
In this year's poll, poverty was rated as the most serious global issue in ten of the countries polled, including in the UK, US, Kenya, Australia, Brazil, and Chile. However, in Russia, Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, and Nigeria more felt that the rising cost of food and energy was very serious.The poll, which was conducted before the Copenhagen summit took place, also found that the Japanese were the only nation to regard climate change as the most serious global issue—although the Chinese and Costa Ricans identified environmental issues more generally, or pollution, as the most serious. China ranked climate change as the second most serious issue, whereas the US ranked it ninth.The poll also found that Indians and Pakistanis rated terrorism as the number one concern, and a number of countries which have experienced terrorism also rated it among the top three most serious global problems—Indonesia, Spain, Turkey, and the UK.
Egypt was the only country to rate the spread of human disease as the top issue, although Chile, China, Kenya, and Nigeria rated it in the top three. If poverty is seen as the world’s most serious problem, it is not the most top-of-mind. When respondents were asked to name spontaneously “the most important issue facing the world today,” economic problems were most commonly cited, with one in four mentioning them (26%). Terrorism and war followed with 10 per cent.
And while poverty was some distance ahead of other global issues in terms of how serious it was seen to be, it was only one of a number of issues that people had discussed with friends and family recently. The greatest number—30%—said they had talked about rising food and energy costs with their friends and family recently, with extreme poverty and the spread of human diseases the second most discussed issues (29%) and the state of the global economy third (28%).
With recent terrorist attacks in their own countries still fresh in people’s minds, Indians, Pakistanis, Turks, and Indonesians were most likely to say they had talked about terrorism recently with their friends and family. In the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Australia, the state of the global economy was the most discussed issue. Brazil, meanwhile, was the only country where a majority had discussed the environment with their friends and family over the previous month.
“Over time, this poll will show us how public concern on global issues is shifting—and which issues are being discussed most often at dinner tables and workplaces around the world.”
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Geneva – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria today announced its mid-year results which show that 2.8 million people with HIV have received life-saving antiretroviral (ARV) treatment, a 22 percent increase on results reported in June 2009. Global Fund-supported tuberculosis programs have so far provided 7 million people with effective TB drugs treatment. This is a 30 percent increase from mid-2009. Tuberculosis remains the leading cause of death among people infected with HIV; the World Health Organization estimating that one in four TB deaths worldwide is HIV-related.
The Global Fund also reported progress in the fight against malaria, with a cumulative total of 122 million insecticide-treated bed nets delivered through its funded programs to families at risk of contracting the disease. This is a rise of 39 percent from 88 million nets distributed one year ago.
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The Executive Director of the Global Fund Professor Michel Kazatchkine met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono today to congratulate him for progress in fighting AIDS, TB and malaria and to request Indonesia’s support for efforts with the Global Fund’s donor countries to increase funding for the three diseases worldwide. “Indonesia is a major voice in the G-20 and its support will be very important in 2010, a critical year for global health,” says Professor Kazatchkine. “This year the Global Fund’s donors will decide if we get the resources that would allow us to reach the health-related Millennium Development Goals. We have made huge progress in recent years and could make history. But this progress is fragile and AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria will gain force again unless we continue scaling up our interventions.” He added: “Indonesia has made rapid progress in fighting these diseases and can play an important role in ensuring that our progress is not reversed.”
Indonesia, as a G-20 member country, is providing a strong voice for the need to continue scaling up health investments. UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-moon will chair a crucial meeting in New York on October 5 this year where donor countries will pledge resources to the Global Fund for the period 2011-13.
The Global Fund and Indonesia also signed today new grant agreements amounting to over US$ 55 million to scale up the government and civil society’s response to HIV in all 33 of the country’s provinces. The new grants will be implemented by the Ministry of Health, National AIDS Commission and Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Muslim faith-based organisation in the country.
Since its inception in 2002, the Global Fund has committed over US$ 630 million to fight the three diseases in Indonesia. It accounts for sixty five percent of total resources in the country to fight TB and malaria and forty five percent of resources to fight HIV.
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