Tribunnews.com reporter, Rina Ayu
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Control objectives HIV / AIDS, TBand malaria will continue to be pursued until 2024
It is hoped that by the end of 2024 the goal of 90% discovery and 90% treatment HIV / AIDS reached up. Likewise, the goal of 90 percent case detection and 90 percent treatment TB.
In 2022 it is a new case of the disease TB reached 286 thousand of the 824 thousand cases detected, the remaining 537 thousand cases were not detected. Likewise on HIV / AIDS. This year, from the target of 97,000 cases detected, only 13,000 (13%) were found.
For positive cases malaria and the annual pest index (API) tends to rise, especially in eastern Indonesia. Positive cases from 2020 to 2021 malaria up to 50 thousand cases.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin explained that this goal can be achieved with the support of the leadership and accountability of the provincial and district governments.
“The leadership and accountability of local governments at the provincial and district levels are the keys to Indonesia’s success in overcoming HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in a decentralized health system in the country,” said Health Minister Budi. quoted in his written statement on Wednesday (9/21/2022).
In pursuing the goal of eliminating HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, the government is assisted by the Global Fund or GF as a partner in health development in Indonesia. Since 2003, $ 1.45 billion (Rp 20.89 trillion) has been donated to the Ministry of Health and the community, particularly for programs to fight HIV / AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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In HIV / AIDS, GF helps improve HIV services, case finding, ARV treatment and care, as well as outreach in the field. Up to the end of June 2022, 473,005 HIV-positive people were found and 163,562 HIV-positive people were being treated.
In tuberculosis, GF helps procure first- and second-line anti-TB drugs, preventive therapy drugs, microscopic diagnostic tools, and TCM, to accelerate TB case research by screening at public and private health facilities in 80 districts / cities in 19 provinces with high TB workloads and a large number of private health facilities.
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