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However, with global funding pledges falling short of the target required to sustain health programming, how can countries, including Indonesia, win their goal to end AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria as global health threats?
The US withdrawal from global health aid highlights the vulnerability of global health funding to geopolitical shifts, and serves as a wake-up call for Indonesia to build a self-reliant healthcare model that is capable of delivering integrated services, such as for TB, in anticipation of future uncertainties.
A new global AIDS report by UNAIDS suggests that Asia-Pacific governments must invest urgently in prevention programs and community-led initiatives for the region, among those with the highest prevalence in the world, can attain its 2030 AIDS prevention goal.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said in a statement that money contributed to the effort came from the state budget as well as funding by the private sector. The move was for the first for Indonesia to become a contributor to the initiative.
Liliek Sulistiowati has cared for people living with HIV/AIDS for 30 years at her Abdi Asih Foundation in Surabaya, East Java, but its finances are in dire straits amid the prolonged pandemic and is threatened with eviction.
Fifteen million people have received the COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia, but amid fears of stigma, personal information leaks and side effects, only a handful of people living with HIV/AIDS have joined that group. Some have shared their vaccination experiences with The Jakarta Post.
