Fact Sheets

This grant supports activities focused on COVID-19 mitigation, combating pediatric tuberculosis (TB), and countering gender based violence (GBV).

In Indonesia, USAID Community Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Program ensures that communities receive critical information about disease transmission and how to prevent it, establishes systems to detect outbreaks and communication mechanisms for timely information sharing with the healthcare system and to increase community engagement. CP3 also plays a role in preparing first responders to assist the Government of Indonesia in responding to current and future outbreaks.

Health security is a global priority, particularly when infectious diseases know no borders. The United States and Indonesia collaborate to strengthen health systems and increase Indonesia’s self-reliance in preventing, detecting, and responding to global health challenges.

The USAID GHS Program complements and strengthens the Government of Indonesia’s efforts to minimize the risk and impact of emerging diseases and pandemics by pre-empting outbreaks and enhancing its ability to prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats (a key objective of the Global Health Security Agenda).

The Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program provides technical assistance for advancing global understanding of health and population trends in low- and middle-income countries; the 2022/2023 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey is an integral part of this effort. This project is the ninth in a series of Demographic and Health Surveys in Indonesia conducted since 1987.

To ensure human resources that are equipped to prevent, detect, respond to, and control biothreats, USAID funds the OHW-NG Global Consortium, led by the University of California, Davis and the Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN). In Indonesia, USAID OHW-NG partners with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research and Technology (and empowers the Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN) to develop and deliver model programs that equip professionals and students with the transdisciplinary skills needed to address emerging infectious diseases.

The United States and Indonesia are working together with the private sector to pool resources and implement evidence-based best practices to accelerate stunting reduction and enhance the quality of primary health care.

USAID programs support ongoing Government of Indonesia efforts to encourage more Indonesians to protect themselves against HIV infection and make HIV testing and treatment more widely available.

USAID, through the Polio Eradication Initiative Grant, partners with the International Federation of the Red Cross, the World Health Organization, and other key stakeholders to support the Government of Indonesia in implementing the 2019-2023 Global Polio Eradication and Endgame Strategy (GPEES) and responding to the polio outbreak. USAID support focuses on improving polio surveillance and a phased switch from oral polio vaccines (OPV) to inactivated polio vaccines (IPV). OPV can unintentionally transmit polio since the active ingredient is weakened poliovirus, so the switch is a critical step in the GPEES. IPV vaccination coverage had been slowly improving nationally, but dropped significantly due to COVID-19; pockets of low coverage remain in remote areas and in some urban neighborhoods.

Since the onset of the pandemic, the United States has provided more than $77 million to support Indonesia’s COVID-19 response—including $65 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to support risk communications and prevention, contact tracing, data management, and critical case handling.

In Indonesia, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) “Act to End NTDs | East” (USAID Act | East) program supports the Government of Indonesia’s ability to identify, treat, and eliminate LF. At the national level, USAID Act | East supports Indonesia’s National NTD Program to advance evidence-based strategy development, planning, coordination, and surveillance.

USAID, through Advocate4Health, works to improve HIV services for those most vulnerable to infection and discrimination.