Topic: Siti Fadilah Supari
Three Australian children were among six newly confirmed swine flu cases in Indonesia on Sunday, bringing the country's total infections to eight.Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said two boys aged 10 and 12 and a girl aged 14 had been ...
Four people died of bird flu in the first two months of this year in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by the disease, the head of the national bird flu committee said onTuesday. "(The) four cases confirmed are in January and February ...
Indonesia's health minister is confident foreign pharmaceutical companies will comply with new rules requiring them to build local factories, saying they would not risk being locked out of the country's $2 billion drug market. It says foreign drug makers will ...
Indonesia's huge market for prescription drugs should encourage foreign pharmaceutical firms to set up production plants in the country and comply with a new government decree, the health minister said on Wednesday. The new rules, issued earlier this month, require foreign ...
Tests on an Indonesian girl reported to have died of bird flu proved negative for the deadly strain of the virus, the health minister said Thursday.Siti Fadilah Supari said the 15-year-old girl, who died in hospital in the Central Java city ...
Sliding with short steps onto the stage in front of a crowd of students, academics and supporters, Indonesia's Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari is in her element.Her hair swept up into the voluminous bouffant favoured by Indonesia's wealthy ladies ...
With nearly half the world's human bird flu deaths, concern is building over Indonesia's refusal to share virus samples and its health minister's increasingly strident denunciations of global " conspiracies".Indonesia stopped sharing the samples with the World Health Organisation ...
New Scientist lauded Indonesia's stubborn stand against the injustice of the world's health system when it refused last year to send bird flu samples to foreign labs without some guarantee that it would receive vaccines in return. Indonesia's health ...
Indonesia's health minister lambasted a U.S. doctor for taking home blood and tissue samples from a patient to diagnose his illness, saying she feared they could be used to make vaccines that would be unaffordable for the poor.Siti Fadilah ...
Food poisoning was likely to blame for the mysterious deaths of 10 people in an Indonesian village, the health minister said Friday, ruling out viral infections or an emerging outbreak-prone disease.The victims, who all died in the last week, experienced multi-organ ...
