Indonesia melalui Peraturan Pemerintah (PP) Nomor 28 Tahun 2024 tentang Pelaksanaan Undang Undang Nomor 17 Tahun 2023 resmi menghapus praktik sunat pada perempuan. Ketentuan tersebut jelas tercantum dalam pasal 102 poin a sebagai salah satu upaya kesehatan reproduksi bayi, balita, dan anak prasekolah.
"Menghapus praktik sunat perempuan," demikian bunyi regulasi dalam PP yang diteken Presiden Joko Widodo, Jumat (27/4/2024).

Portal Kesehatan Masyarakat (Portkesmas) yang didukung Unicef telah menginisiasi pelatihan kolaboratif yang dinamai Jaga Bersama sebagai upaya untuk mengampanyekan pentingnya imunisasi Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) untuk mencegah kanker serviks. Pelatihan ini berlangsung selama lima hari sejak 15-19 Juli 2024 untuk membekali tenaga kesehatan, guru, Lembaga Swadaya Masyarakat (LSM), dan anak muda dengan keterampilan komunikasi untuk menyampaikan pentingnya imunisasi HPV dan perilaku hidup sehat lainnya.

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday there was a high risk of the polio virus spreading across the Gaza Strip and beyond its borders due to the dire health and sanitation situation in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave. Ayadil Saparbekov, team lead for health emergencies at WHO in Gaza and the West Bank, said circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 had been isolated from environmental samples from sewage in Gaza.

As healthcare organizations emerge from the pandemic, battered but persevering, there is an urgent need for highly effective leadership to help move healthcare into a “new normal.” There is no getting around the fact that healthcare has changed tremendously since the pandemic arrived. The entire healthcare system was thrown into chaos. People, including healthcare workers, were getting ill and dying at unprecedented levels.