Nafsiah mboi biography of barack

The Ben and Nafsiah Mboi Collection is an international research library that contains more than 22,000 books and other documents, containing various references from 1677 to 2015. Thousands of these books came from collections owned by Ben Mboi (Governor of East Nusa Tenggara 1978-1988 period ) and Nafsiah Mboi (the former Indonesia Minister of Health 2012-2014).

Nafsiah Mboi who is also a pediatrician, said that the current interest in reading is decreasing. Moreover, young people nowadays prefer using internet instead of  books. With this collection, she hoped that young peoples also have the desire to read more books and enjoying the collection.

The collection includes varied interests, among them are Portuguese exploration, the Dutch colonial era, the independent era of Indonesia, government governance, community-based policies, contemporary development, public health, health insurance, and traditional medicine.

The signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Nafsiah Mboi and Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia was held on Monday, March 19 2018, coinciding with 1,000 days of Ben Mboi’s memorial day, at the Auditorium of Atma Jaya Yustinus Building.

At the inauguration and launch of The Ben and Nafsiah Mboi Collection at AtmaLib (Atma Jaya Library), Semanggi Campus, both parties; Nafsiah Mboi and the Rector of Atma Jaya celebrate the ceremony together with two prominent scientist. They are Dr. Edwin Wierringa, an Indonesia philologist from Kolhn University Germanay and Dr. Rosalia Sciortino an anthropologist from the USA. There was also three events of book discussions prior the launching of the Ben & Nafsiah Mboi collections. The book discussion were hosted by two international students doing their summer internship at Atma Jaya. The students are Lan Nguyen from Vietnam and Salma El Gamal from Austria. The events were in line with the focus of A

(04.04.13) With the sound of the ceremonial gong, Dr. Nafsiah Mboi, Minister of Health for Indonesia, opened the 194 session of the World Medical Association (WMA) Council meeting this morning in Bali, Indonesia.

Dr. Mboi, a pediatrician by training, with a masters in public health, addressed members of the Council and guests on the health care challenges of a large island country (population 242 million spread over 17,508 islands) with limited resources and significant health care disparities. She pointed out that advances in medicine have made diseases such as leprosy and cancer curable. She said that advances in technology enable early identification of diseases. But she emphasized that the health outcomes that are a result of technology are costly and out of reach for many. Dr. Mboi stated that in addition to infectious diseases, noncommunicable diseases with their accompanying root causes, the social determinants of health, are increasing in frequency in Indonesia, as is the case throughout the world.

Dr. Mboi spoke at some length about the shortage of physicians in Indonesia. In addition physicians are migrating from rural to city, and public to private. And worldwide physicians are migrating from countries lower on the economic scale such as Indonesia to richer countries. All of this “brain drain” makes it difficult to provide care for all who need it, increasing health care disparities.

She reported that in the year 2000 Indonesia de-centralized its health care system. In 2008, in an attempt to respond to the physician shortage, government scholarships were instituted with requirements to serve in areas of manpower need. By 2012 this program had produced 4310 new physicians.

Dr. Mboi urged the World Medical Association to engage in working to alleviate this problem worldwide. In addition, she spoke of the need for us as physicians to preserve the passion to serve in the best interests of patients. She talked eloquently about the importance that

17th Health Minister of Indonesia

Andi Nafsiah Walinono Mboi (born 14 July 1941) is an Indonesian politician and physician. She served as Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia from 14 June 2012 until 20 October 2014. Dr Mboi currently serves as the Leaders' Envoy for the Asia Pacific Leaders Malaria Alliance (APLMA).

Career

Nafsiah Mboi is a veteran senior pediatrician who received a Master of Public Health qualification from the Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp, Belgium in 1990 and became a research fellow for Takemi Program in International Health at Harvard University, Cambridge, United States in 1990–1991. Her involvement in the health sector began in 1978, when she along with her husband, Aloysius Benedictus Mboi who served as Governor of East Nusa Tenggara were doing their efforts in elevating the health and welfare of the people of East Nusa Tenggara.

She is known to have a high concern in the field of HIV/AIDS advocacy. Mboi also pioneered the establishment of the Sentani Commitment in 2004 which became a milestone commitment of the governments for AIDS prevention. She is also known to be actively involved in the field of human rights and was the head of children's rights committee for the United Nations. In government, he was a member of the People's Consultative Assembly in 1982–1987. Since 2006, Nafsiah served as Executive Secretary of the National AIDS Commission and vice chairman of the National Commission for Women.

On 13 June 2012, Mboi was appointed as the Minister of Health by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono after the previous minister, Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih died on 2 May 2012, from lung cancer. With her appointment, this ministry continues consecutive held by women ministers, having previously held by Supari and Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih. Mboi is the Minister of Health with the oldest age who had served, by the age of 71 years.

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Mr. Chief Justice, Mrs. Magsaysay, Fellow Awardees, Excellencies, Trustees, Ladies and Gentlemen:

It is an honor to be here with you this evening and to be part of these ceremonies simultaneously honoring the memory of the late Ramon Magsaysay, a great champion of democracy and the dignity of mankind, and the current acts of people who still care. 

Let me start by invoking the spirit of the man whose memory we keep alive here, this evening. Were he with us I feel certain he would remind us that we now honor, the awaking of a people, the rebirth of hope, the evolution of a growing sense of efficacy among ordinary people, particularly among women, and the emergence of new organizations to serve community needs. 

Then it would be clear that no individual can be singled out as “the one who did it.” Certainly, in NTT he would be right. What has been accomplished and what is honored here is the result of many people’s efforts — people sharing in the adventure of development. 

In responding to the citation I would like to share something of our journey since arriving in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur in July 1978, a journey which started, as far as I was concerned, very much on the dark side of the mountain. 

Honor and duty notwithstanding, as my husband and I left Jakarta for NH I felt that we were giving up rather too much and the task ahead was rather too daunting. I had no sense at the time of how much I would learn — personally and professionally, how rewarding and fulfilling the job would be. Certainly, never did it occur to us that we would receive such an overwhelming honor as the Ramon Magsaysay Award, nor that there would be people who felt such would be justified. 

First impressions upon arrival in NTT did nothing to relieve me. It was July, mid-point in our dry season when the environment becomes more desolate with each passing day. 

To make matters worse, one hea