The nation of Indonesia, the fourth most populous worldwide, has inked a deal with AstraZeneca to buy 100 million COVID-19 vaccines next year. Known as AZD1222 (Oxford vaccine), Indonesia Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi signed a letter of intent while visiting with...
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Phase 3 CoronaVac Trial in Indonesia Moves Along while BPOM Plans an Audit of Sinovac Facility in China
Thus far, Indonesian authorities report the relatively smooth running of the Phase 3 Sinovac COVID-19 clinical trial vaccine candidate. Conducted in Bandung, West Java, the local press reports no participants with “grave symptoms” after the injections. Retno Marsudi,...
BPOM to the Rescue in Indonesia with Support of Military & Intel Service: COVID ‘Cure’ Includes Hydroxychloroquine & Lopinavir/Ritonavir
The Indonesia Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) are now collaborating with Airlangga University to develop possible COVID-19 therapies and now will pursue revised clinical trials in Surabaya, East Java. Apparently, according to BPOM head Penny Kusumawati...
Indonesia Testing Location for China’s Sinovac Phase 3 Clinical Trial
Sinovac, one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine developers, initiated Phase 3 clinical trial in Indonesia where about 800 participants have registered for the clinical trial. Led by Padjajaran University (Unpad), Medical School’s Kusnandi Rusmil reports the clinical...
Indonesia Joins Sinovac to Initiate Phase 3 Testing of CoronaVac While Securing Option to Purchase 100m Doses
Indonesia’s Bio Farma, a state-run pharmaceutical company, plans to produce 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine product developed by Sinovac. In a deal that is contingent on a successful Phase 3 clinical trial in the world’s third most populous nation, Sinovac has...
Updates on the Bajakah Tree & Medicinal Claims in Indonesia
TrialSite News received hundreds of requests for more information about the Bajakah tree story in Indonesia. Last year, a couple of high school kids conducted an experiment finding that the indigenous tree when processed and administered to rats, eliminated a...
Indonesian Bajakah Tree Cures Cancer in Rats in High School Students’ Study: Are they on to Something?
Two Indonesia high-school students used a local lore of a plant’s medicinal properties in their own form of a clinical study. Attending Palangka Raya State High School in Central Kalimantan, the duo presented their evidence last month at a conference in Seoul, South...
Clinical Trials in the Indonesian Archipelago: Enter the Pristine Waters Slowly and Carefully
With nearly 270 million people Indonesia is the 4th most populous country. Incredibly diversified in every way—from people, language and culture to geography and geology to history--this southeast Asian archipelago includes nearly 300 languages, a growing demand for...