Tag: Pacific health
Better immunisation coverage needed to prevent Pacific measles, says WHO
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist
Surveillance and better vaccine coverage is needed to prevent another measles outbreak in the Pacific, says the World Health...
Port Moresby hospital morgue full – 257 bodies lie unclaimed
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby
Sixty four compartments of Papua New Guinea's main mortuary have been out of service since the festive season while...
NZ covid inquiry must look at response to specific communities, Pasifika...
RNZ News
A Pasifika health leader hopes the Royal Commission into the Covid-19 pandemic will look into the equity of the response and resource allocation.
Prime...
Marshall Islands covid spread demonstrates super variant
By Giff Johnson, Marshall Islands Journal editor and RNZ Pacific correspondent in Majuro
The Marshall Islands is a live demonstration that the omicron BA.5 variant...
Niue enters covid-19 red alert level as case numbers rise to...
RNZ Pacific
The government of Niue has announced the country will move to covid-19 alert level red after it recorded nine new cases of the...
Pasifika wāhine launching new Waikato Pan Pacific health hub
By Aden Miles Morunga, Local Democracy Reporter
“It’s exciting to know that I am involved in making history and that my contribution will leave a...
Thousands in Pape’ete mark 56th anniversary of first Moruroa test
RNZ Pacific
French Polynesia's nuclear test veterans have called for July 2 to be made a public holiday to remember the impact of France's nuclear...
‘Calm’ health advocate among 18 Pasifika recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist, and Eleisha Foon, journalist
Pacific health advocate and champion Dr Collin Fonotau Tukuitonga heads the list of Pacific recipients...
Pacific services receive $196m boost in NZ Budget – new RNZ...
RNZ Pacific
A total of NZ$196 million has been set aside for Pacific services in Aotearoa New Zealand in this year's Budget.
A big chunk of...
Covid-19 in the Pacific – Nauru reports first two cases in...
RNZ Pacific
A roundup today of the covid-19 pandemic status around the Pacific.
Nauru
President Lionel Aingimea has announced that Nauru has recorded its first two covid-19...
Covid trends around the Pacific – deaths, lockdown and easing rules
RNZ Pacific
A snapshot of how the covid-19 pandemic is impacting on Pacific nations and territories today:
Second Covid-19 death in American Samoa
American Samoa has recorded...
Iwi leader warns Māori to take extreme care under ‘dangerous’ new...
By Moana Ellis of Local Democracy Reporting
A Whanganui iwi leader says the Aotearoa New Zealand government's decision to ease covid-19 measures at this time is...
Samoa extends lockdown as spread of covid-19 cases jumps to 467
RNZ Pacific
The Samoa government has extended its alert level three lockdown for another two weeks, due to the rapid spread of the covid-19 in...
Pasifika make up half of cases in NZ’s omicron variant surge...
By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist
Pasifika people are making up about half of the cases in the current outbreak of the omicron variant in...
Latest covid-19 reports roundup across the Pacific
RNZ Pacific
Several hundred more cases of covid in Solomon Islands ... Kiribati records first covid death ...nearly 12,000 in isolation in New Caledonia ......
NZ health expert reminds people to get tested for covid-19 as...
By Kim Moodie, RNZ News reporter
A public health expert is urging New Zealanders to keep up the testing momentum, as testing rates take a...
Iwi clinic egged as anti-vaxxers force caution in vaccine rollout for...
By Moana Ellis, Local Democracy Reporting
Māori health providers in Aotearoa New Zealand are holding back on covid-19 vaccinations for children in the face of...
Most challenging phase of omicron outbreak yet to come, but New...
ANALYSIS: By Matthew Hobbs, University of Canterbury; Anna Howe, University of Auckland, and Lukas Marek, University of Canterbury
Within a month of the first community...
Fiji plans grassroots habits education to help target NCDs, says Fong
By Luke Rawalai in Suva
Changing daily habits will be the difficult issue to address when creating awareness in Fiji against non-communicable disease (NCDs), says...
Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist
Concern is growing around low covid-19 vaccine rates in the Pacific.
People in developing nations are generally missing out due...
What New Zealand can learn from omicron outbreak in Australia
RNZ News
Omicron has ripped through the Australian states of New South Wales and Victoria, exposing testing regimes, decimating supply chains and causing the country's...
Kiribati confirms more than 100 covid-19 cases – new rules
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific regional correspondent
The Kiribati Health Ministry has confirmed that the atoll island nation has surpassed 100 covid-19 cases after it...