Jakarta, Indonesia – Jakarta, Indonesia (AP) – Bill Gates was in Indonesia on Wednesday to discuss health and sustainable development initiatives with the leader of the fourth most populous country in the world.
Indonesia’s Presidential Office said in a statement before the meeting that Gates Jakarta’s Colon met with President Prabo Subanto at the Polyzing Merdeca Palace.
The co-founder of the Microsoft and Gates Foundation praised the adoption of rutvirus and pneumococcus for pneumonia for Indonesia’s diarrhea and pneumonia, and praised the country’s efforts to reduce children’s mortality.
He said that after 90% of death due to diarrhea, pneumonia or malaria, his foundation was launched in 2000 after ten million children under the age of five. Gates said the number has now been cut by half to five million.
“It was an amazing period and
The Gates Foundation is currently developing a tuberculosis vaccine planning to test in Indonesia, Subanto said.
“This is very important because TB is still a fatal disease in the country,” he said.
Gates said that rich countries do not have tuberculosis, “It rarely gets any money for diagnostics or drugs or vaccines.”
Gates has granted Indonesia more than $ 1 million since 20 years. Most of them were allotted to the health sector, especially for the collection of vaccines, Supinto said. Thanks to the funds, Subanto said that the state -run pharmaceutical company bioforma can now produce two billion doses of its polio vaccine every year, benefiting more than 5 million people in 12 countries.
The Gates Foundation plans to roll a micronutrient supplement for Indonesia pregnant women next months.
Subanto said that Gates will receive the highest honor of New York in New York for service at the UN General Assembly in September.
During his first personal visit to the Indonesian capital, Gates is also expected to visit an elementary school in East Jakarta where more than 5 students were participating in the program.
UN children’s funds assume that under 5 years of age 12 Indonesian children suffer from a low weight, while one out of five is less than normal. Both conditions occur due to malnutrition.
Indonesia has launched an ambitious project to fight malnutrition this year, which aims to feed about 90 million children and pregnant women. This program is expected to spend 450 trillion silver ($ 28 billion) out of 2029.
Critics question whether it is affordable. Investors and analysts have questioned state finance and economy and the project’s relationship with the interest of the industrial lobby groups.
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