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19 September 2026

Samoa strengthens food safety and emergency preparedness through national workshop

The Ministry of Health Samoa, in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), Ministry of Agriculture and Fi ...

18 September 2026

News release

WHO continues to support Fiji as it declares HIV a national emergency

Fiji has formally declared HIV as a national emergency, amid one of the sharpest increases in new HIV infections globally. The declaration on 16 September builds on a response that ...

9 September 2026

Joint News Release

Pacific partners launch new Action Plan to accelerate health and climate action

Pacific health and climate leaders launched the Pacific Network for Health and Climate Change Action Plan 2026–2028, setting out a shared framework to accelerate action to protect ...

9 September 2026

Media release

Cross-Border Partnership Aims to Transform Nursing Education and Health Care in Solomon Islands

Recognizing the critical role of a skilled health workforce in achieving better health outcomes, universities in Solomon Islands and the Philippines are exploring a strategic partn ...

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5 December 2024

The Solomon Islands fortifies food safety procedures in partnership with WHO

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18 September 2026

Across islands and communities: accelerating action to interrupt transmission and eliminate leprosy disease in the Pacific

Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands and Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, 02 September 2026: In a Pacific island community, recognising leprosy early can begin with no ...

17 September 2026

Small checks, careful follow-up: how frontline nurses are making NCD care safer in Honiara

A woman visited Mataniko Area Health Center asking to be checked for malaria. She had no idea she was also living with diabetes and hypertension. Because the clinic had strengthene ...

17 September 2026

Cook Islands promotes safe care for noncommunicable diseases

Amid the halls of Rarotonga Hospital, we meet Dr Koko Lwin, Chief Medical Officer at Te Marae Ora, Cook Islands Ministry of Health, to discuss one of the country’s greatest public ...