Monitoring maternal and newborn health outcomes globally: a brief history of key events and initiatives.

Objective: Over time, we have seen a major evolution of measurement initiatives, indicators and methods, such that today a wide range of maternal and perinatal indicators are monitored and new indicators are under development. Monitoring global progress in maternal and newborn health outcomes and development has been dominated in recent decades by efforts to set, measure and achieve global goals and targets: the Millennium Development Goals followed by the Sustainable Development Goals. This paper aims to review, reflect and learn on accelerated progress towards global goals and events, including universal health coverage, and better tracking of maternal and newborn health outcomes.

The organization of STI/HIV risk-taking among long-line fishermen in Bali, Indonesia.

We report on selected findings of a qualitative social network study investigating STI/HIV-related risk among migrant fishermen based at one of Indonesia's major fishing ports in Bali. Their activities between fishing trips include drinking parties, watching pornographic videos, and visiting brothels, while condom use is rare. While on board, they plan and anticipate these activities and many insert penile implants.

Prevalence of sexually transmissible infections (STI) among male patients with STI in Denpasar and Makassar, Indonesia: are symptoms of urethritis sufficient to guide syndromic treatment?

Background: There are few data on sexually transmissible infections in men in Indonesia. We conducted a prevalence study and compared symptoms alone with clinical signs to manage urethritis.

Methods: We recruited symptomatic male patients at public clinics, and used standardised questionnaires, examinations and laboratory tests.