Jakarta, Oct. 17 -- The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture is adopting an integrated management model, inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic response, to strengthen tuberculosis (TB) handling across Indonesia.

The ministry's Head of the Communication Bureau, Budi Prasetyo, stated that the Pentahelix collaboration emphasizes massive and integrated public communication channels to support the goal of TB elimination by 2030.

"TB has been a long-standing problem, and Indonesia has the second-highest number of TB cases in the world after India. Therefore, we need a massive campaign to spread public awareness that TB is curable," he remarked during a meeting in Jakarta on Friday.

He explained that the national TB control cam...