Health Office officers carry out fumigation in the elementary school area in Kendari, Southeast Sulawesi, Monday (15/1/2024). The Kendari City Health Service carries out fogging to prevent the increase in the number of cases of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) and its spread.
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — Director General of Disease Prevention and Control, Ministry of Health, Maxi Rein Rondonuwu schedules the introduction dengue vaccine to become a national program, to prevent the spread of dengue fever starting in 2025. “We will discuss it with ITAGI (Indonesia Technical Advisory Group of Immunization). Of course we have to talk with ministries such as Bappenas, because it is related to financing, because for every new vaccine we have to start with introduction. “We’ll see (for the introduction of the dengue vaccine) next year,” said Maxi in Jakarta, Wednesday, (17/1/2024).
Maxi said that although he scheduled the introduction of the vaccine next year, the Government, he added, was also allowing regions with good Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) fiscal capacity to start introducing the dengue vaccine. “We have also allowed regions, in fact the introduction has started in certain regions with good APBD fiscal capacity, such as East Kalimantan. Regions that are willing are welcome,” he said.
According to Maxi, projections for the dengue vaccine to eventually become a national program will depend greatly on the results of the introduction. The dengue vaccine is recommended by the Association of Indonesian Internal Medicine Experts (PAPDI) to be given in two doses from the age of six years to 45 years as a prevention of dengue fever.
The distance between the first and second vaccines is three months. After that, giving a repeat vaccine four years later is not necessary because antibodies are still high.
Then, talking about efforts to prevent the spread of dengue fever, one of the things the government is trying to do is distribute Aedes aegypti mosquito larvae containing Wolbachia bacteria. Maxi said that currently a number of facilities have the capacity to produce this technology, including the UGM laboratory, Labkesmas in Salatiga.
“Five districts/cities (as a pilot project for implementing Aedes aegyepti mosquito technology with Wolbchia), we will look at it again once this is underway, this year, because our egg production capacity is still limited,” said Maxi.
source: between
2024-01-18 03:45:39
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