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Indonesia is a developing country with a dense population, so the government carry on KB (Family Planning) program in which the targets are mostly women. Contraceptives are intended for women are birth control pills and IUD (Intra Uterine Device), whereas until now the contraceptive for men who are considered well-established are condom and vasectomy. Thus, the development of herbal medicine, which is cheap and affordable, makes it possible to be consumed in a long term with less meaningful side effects. Papaya seeds (Carica papaya) is one of the many plants used by communities to eradicate intestinal worms, menstrual laxative, and abortivum. Empirically papaya fruit, leaves, and seeds of papaya also contains carpaine, an alkaloid which is used as anthelmintic. Papaya seeds, which are edible and spicy in India are used for contraception. Alkaloid content in seeds of papaya can be antifertility herbal plants for males that can be measured from the quality of spermatozoa. Alkaloid compounds contained in papaya seeds can disrupt the hormone testosterone, which would interfere the sperm quality, making papaya seed potential to become a candidate for contraceptive.

Background: Cervical cancer is the second most common type of cancer after breast cancer. Cervical cancer is a special concern of the government to support the success of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). The government established a cervical cancer prevention program for 2015-2019 in collaboration with public health centers and local governments in detecting cervical cancer early in the community. Midwives have an important role in tackling cervical cancer, but there are still few studies in Indonesia that discuss the relationship between knowledge of midwives in attitudes and behavior to carry out early detection of cervical cancer for themselves. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge, attitudes, and behavior of early detection of cervical cancer in midwives at Puskesmas Surabaya. Methods: This research method is observational analytic with the cross-sectional approach. The number of samples is 94 with the random sampling technique. The independent variables are knowledge and attitudes and the dependent variable is behavior. The instrument used is a questionnaire. Using chi-square and fisher test. Results: There were 72 people (78.7%) who had good knowledge at the Surabaya Public Health Center, 52 people (55.3%) with a good attitude, and 49 people (52.1%). The results of the statistical test of knowledge with behavior p = 0.221 (p> 0.05), knowledge with attitude p = 0.039 (p <0.05), and behavior with attitude p = 0.042 (p <0.05). Conclusion: There is a relationship between knowledge of cervical cancer and attitudes towards early detection of cervical cancer, there is a relationship between attitudes towards early detection of cervical cancer and behavior for early detection of cervical cancer and there is no relationship between knowledge of cervical cancer and behavior of early detection of cervical cancer.

COVID19 pandemic became the primer focus of health problem by the government since the case was increasing every month in 2020. The impact of this pandemic was spread quickly across many areas including Surabaya city. Youth generation often found to be a silent source of infection. Furthermore, young people behavior often ignoring health prevention policy makes the infection more easily to spread. This condition might be because of their knowledge regarding COVID19 was relatively not enough. Factor that may affect their knowledge are varies including knowledge of city of residence. This study aims to evaluate the correlation between knowledge about city of residence with youth generation knowledge of COVID19 as this factor has not yet been studied before in Indonesia. We conducted an analytical cross-sectional with an online survey for youth generation across Surabaya to understand their knowledge concerning Surabaya and COVID19. A total of 57 participants were voluntarily enrolled in this study. The result data were analyzed statistically. There is significant positive correlation between participants' knowledge of Surabaya city with knowledge of COVID19 (r= 0.314; p= 0.017). Furthermore, knowledge of COVID19 was significantly different between youth who have better knowledge of Surabaya than lower knowledge (p= 0.021). Knowledge of Surabaya city was correlated with knowledge of COVID19. Youth who have better knowledge regarding their city of residence seem to have better knowledge of COVID19. Knowledge concerning city of residence proven to be important in order to increase knowledge of COVID19 in youth generation.