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Indonesia’s free meals beneficiaries willing to forgo assistance to improve quality

Similar calls have extended beyond beneficiaries. On Thursday, June 18, dozens of women and rights activists grouped under the Indonesian Women's Alliance (API) staged a rally in…

  • Published: June 19, 20268:34 am
  • Author Maretha Uli
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1 in 4 Filipino kids under age 5 stunted: study

The figure, up by 1.7 per cent hike from 2023, was taken from the 2025 Updating Survey of the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute.

  • Published: June 18, 20269:51 am
  • Author Andrea Gregorio
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Behind Korea’s soaring C-section rates: Risk-averse mothers, doctors in a strained system

Older maternal age, weakened delivery infrastructure, and affordable C-sections drive a dramatic shift in birth practices in South Korea.

  • Published: June 18, 20269:40 am
  • Author Choi Jae-hee
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Indonesian rupiah slide drives up drug costs, burdening chronically ill patients

Tulus Abadi, chairman of the Indonesian Consumers Foundation (FKBI), said soaring medicine and vitamin prices were an unavoidable consequence of the rupiah’s depreciation,…

  • Published: June 18, 20268:20 am
  • Author Apriadi Gunawan and Fadli
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Medical care out of reach on 60% of South Korea’s inhabited islands

Hospital ships serve as lifelines for islanders but remain outside the legal framework.

  • Published: June 17, 202610:22 am
  • Author Yoon Min-sik
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Vitamin A+ campaign to resume after one year in Bangladesh

The government will resume the nationwide Vitamin A plus campaign after a suspension of more than a year, a gap experts say may have worsened the measles outbreak.

  • Published: June 17, 202610:12 am
  • Author Tuhin Shubhra Adhikary
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Three-quarters of newborn care facilities in Nepal lack critical medicines

Assessment by the health ministry shows newborn units rely heavily on contract staff, while infection control, hygiene and quality monitoring remain weak.

  • Published: June 16, 202610:12 am
  • Author Arjun Poudel
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China targets illegal healthcare activities

The priorities were outlined in a circular recently issued by the National Health Commission and 13 other government departments in the last week, marking the launch of an annual…

  • Published: June 16, 202610:10 am
  • Author Wang Xiaoyu
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Malaysian government looking to expand medicine delivery programme nationwide: minister

Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil said the Communications Ministry and Health Ministry are finalising arrangements to strengthen the “Ubat Melalui Pos” (UMP)…

  • Published: June 16, 202610:00 am
  • Author Arfa Yunus
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Battling the bulge jab by jab: India’s weight-loss drugs now within the reach of millions

In March, the patent for semaglutide – the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drug sold worldwide as Ozempic or Wegovy for the treatment of diabetes and obesity – expired in…

  • Published: June 15, 202611:08 am
  • Author Rohini Mohan

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