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Our work in the Northern Mariana Islands
Nurse checks the stock of available drugs at the Port Vila NCD hub. The Port Vila NCD provides patients and community members with counselling and treatment for NCDs including cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes.
The WHO Representative Office in the South Pacific, located in Suva, Fiji, operates under the umbrella of the Western Pacific regional office, and our role is to act as a catalyst and advocate for action at all levels, from local to global, on health issues of public concern. We work together with a range of partners on closely related public health activities; including research, evaluation, awareness raising and resource mobilization.
Pacific Islands–WHO multi-country cooperation strategy 2024–2029
The Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029, or MCCS, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a consultative process involving 21 Pacific Island countries and areas (PICs), outlines WHO’s comprehensive and tailored medium-term support plan in the Pacific. This summary provides an overview of the MCCS, highlighting its alignment with regional and global health strategies.
Health system and health situation
Health care the Commonwealth is provided through a combination of public and private healthcare facilities. The Commonwealth Health-care Corporation is responsible for delivering health-care services and managing overall government health care in the islands.
The Commonwealth faces several health challenges, including NCDs such as diabetes, obesity,cardiovascular diseases and cancer. There is also a need to address mental health issues, substance abuse and communicable diseases such as tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
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The Pacific Islands–WHO Multi-country Cooperation Strategy 2024–2029, or MCCS, developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) through a...
Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting, Nuku’alofa, Tonga, 20-22 September 2023: meeting report
The Fifteenth Pacific Health Ministers Meeting brought together health leaders from across the Pacific, hosted by the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga...
Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2022 - 30 June...
Covering the period from July 2022 to June 2023, this Report highlights how WHO in the Western Pacific Region has worked to turn the hard lessons of the...
Report of the Regional Director : the work of WHO in the Western Pacific Region, 1 July 2021 - 30 June...
This report, covering the period from July 2021 to June 2022, highlights how WHO continued supporting countries and areas in the Western Pacific Region...
The Pacific Island Countries and Areas–WHO Cooperation Strategy 2018–2022 (the “Cooperation Strategy”) documents the medium-term...
WHO Country Cooperation Strategy 2018-2022 : Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
The Country Cooperation Strategy (CCS) is WHO’s strategic framework to guide the Organization’s work in and with a country. It responds to...
Health information systems in the Pacific at a glance 2016
This report provides a 2016 snapshot of the status of national health information systems (HIS) in the Pacific. The Meeting on Strengthening Health Information...