Tag: WHO
‘Our resources on the ground aren’t enough’, says UN Tonga official
UN News
As news coverage of the Hunga volcano eruption and tsunami that hit Tonga starts to fade, the United Nations Coordination Specialist in the...
Former NZ prime minister Helen Clark chides global pandemic ‘failures’
RNZ News
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark says the global handling of the covid-19 pandemic is marred with failures, gaps and delays.
Clark is...
New covid book exposes global media bias, racism and stigmatisation
REVIEW: By Krishan Dutta
While the covid-19 pandemic’s relentless cyclone continues across the globe wreaking havoc on economies and social systems, this book sheds light...
Facebook boosts Pacific-wide health campaign against misinformation
Facebook News
Facebook has today launched a public education campaign to help people in five Pacific Island countries and territories learn how to identify and...
Former PM Helen Clark on panel’s call for reform over ‘runaway...
RNZ News
An international panel co-chaired by former prime minister Helen Clark is calling for urgent reform of the world's pandemic preparedness.
In its review, the...
Helen Clark-led covid-19 review panel calls for ‘global reset’ over pandemic
By RNZ News
An independent panel says Chinese officials could have applied public health measures more forcefully in January to curb the initial covid-19 outbreak,...
NZ’s coronavirus response ‘one of the strongest’, says WHO
By Max Towle, Worldwatch reporter of RNZ News
The World Health Organisation (WHO) says New Zealand has been world-leading in its response to the covid-19...
How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO...
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series.
Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling...
Indonesian coronavirus patients hit by lack of privacy legal safeguards
By Ardilla Syakriah, Rizki Fachriansyah and Muh. Ibnu Aqil in Jakarta
Indonesia’s first two confirmed Covid-19 coronavirus patients claim that media coverage and discussion on...
NZ pledges $1m for WHO in coronavirus support to Pacific
Pacific Media Watch
New Zealand is providing NZ$1 million to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Suva, Fiji, to support its Pacific Action Plan for...
World must ‘hit hard’ over deadly virus but there is hope,...
Pacific Media Watch
The World Health Organisation has pledged to "hit hard" against the deadly coronavirus
while saying there is hope and "we are not defenceless".
WHO...
NZ to shut out foreign travellers from China – first death...
By RNZ News
A man has died of the Wuhan coronavirus outside China, and any foreign travellers who leave from or transit through China will...
First Australian coronavirus case confirmed – 41 now dead in China
By RNZ News
The first Australian case of Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed, with a man being held under isolation in a Melbourne hospital.
News of...
Japan’s Kasai nominated as Western Pacific’s next WHO regional director
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Japan's candidate, Dr Takeshi Kasai, has been elected as the next World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Director for the Western Pacific.
Health...
Japanese development aid funding splits Pacific unity on key WHO post
The Western Pacific post for the World Health Organisation is a vitally important role for the region. However, reports Sri Krishnamurthi for Asia Pacific...
NZ and Pacific countries contest Asian influence for WHO regional director
By Barbara Dreaver
Battlelines are being drawn as New Zealand and Pacific countries lobby for an important appointment at the World Health Organisation.
The region's health...
Pacific public health warning over Zika virus infection
Pacific Media Centre
By Losalini Bolatagici in Suva
Fiji and other Pacific Island nations have been warned about the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
The Secretariat of the Pacific...
